ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,060, issued on June 17, was assigned to Eberspacher catem GmbH & Co. KG (Herxheim, Germany).
"Electric heating device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Andreas Bilhofer (Schifferstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a heating device for a motor vehicle with a dual-voltage vehicle electrical system. The heating device is operated with a power supply from the sub-system with the higher nominal voltage (for example 48 V), but actuated by a control device in the sub-system with the lower nominal voltage (for example 12 V). For this purpose, the heating device has a supply connection in the sub-...