ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,785, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Eberspacher catem GmbH & Co. KG (Herxheim, Germany).

"Electric heating device and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Patrick Kachelhoffer (Seebach, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric heating device includes a housing which forms a receiving pocket in which at least one PTC heating assembly with at least one PTC element received in a positioning frame and strip conductors electrically conductively connected to the PTC element for energizing the PTC element with different polarity is received. In order to compensate for manufacturing tolerances without significantly...