US Patent Issued to IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING on May 13 for "Electric heating and capacitive sensing arrangement and methods for manufacturing the same" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,723, issued on May 13, was assigned to IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING S.A. (Echternach, Luxembourg).

"Electric heating and capacitive sensing arrangement and methods for manufacturing the same" was invented by Frank Althaus (Saarbrucken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric heating and capacitive sensing arrangement that includes: an electrically conductive heating track arranged on a surface of a planar substrate, the electrically conductive track being connectable to a current source so that during a heating operation a current flows through the electrically conductive track. The electrically conductive t...