ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,509, issued on July 8, was assigned to Eberspacher Catem GmbH & Co. KG (Herxheim, Germany).

"Electric heating device" was invented by Patrick Kachelhoffer (Seebach, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric heating device comprises a housing with a partition wall which separates a connection chamber from a heating chamber for dissipating heat and from which at least one heating rib protrudes in the direction toward the heating chamber and forms a receiving pocket. A PTC heating device is received in the receiving pocket and includes at least one PTC element and conductor tracks which are electrically connected in the connectio...