ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,012, issued on May 13, was assigned to Eberspacher catem GmbH & Co. KG (Herxheim, Germany).

"Electric heating device" was invented by Michael Niederer (Kapellen-Drusweiler, Germany).

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 PTC heating device protrudes as a heating fin in the direction toward the heating chamber. The PTC heating device comprises at least one PTC element electrically connected to conductor tracks in the connection chamber. A temperature sensor is connecte...