ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,395, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater health monitoring system" was invented by Gururaja Bambila (Karnataka, India), Srinivas Magaji Gundu (Karnataka, India), Rhushikesh Patil (Bangalore, India) and Manjunath Hiremath (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater apparatus is provided and includes a PTC heater and a health monitoring unit. The PTC heater includes resistive elements arranged in balanced groups of a bridge formation. Each of the balanced groups is arranged in a corresponding one of the a...