ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,761, issued on June 24, was assigned to MARELLI EUROPE S.P.A. (Corbetta, Italy).
"Heating device for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine" was invented by Mauro Brignone (Corbetta, Italy), Salvatore Pizza (Corbetta, Italy), Emanuele Milani (Corbetta, Italy), Marco La Sana (Corbetta, Italy), Francesco Napoli (Corbetta, Italy), Luigi Lubrano (Corbetta, Italy) and Marco Bovina (Corbetta, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating device for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine and having: a main tubular body, which contains a combustion chamber delimited by a first base wall and by a second base wall, whi...