ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,190, issued on July 1, was assigned to Purem GmbH (Neunkirchen, Germany).

"Support unit for supporting a heating conductor of an exhaust gas heater on a carrier structure" was invented by Holger Brenner (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support unit for supporting a heating conductor of an exhaust gas heater on a carrier structure includes a supporting sleeve extending in the direction of a longitudinal axis and surrounding the longitudinal axis, a supporting pin having a sleeve connecting area extending in the supporting sleeve and an exhaust gas heater connecting area projecting beyond the supporting sleeve, where...