ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,987, issued on May 27, was assigned to Purem GmbH (Neunkirchen, Germany).

"Exhaust gas treatment arrangement" was invented by Kresimir Jambrosic (Reichenbach an der Fils, Germany), Bogdan Popescu (Laichingen, Germany) and Veronique Guerin (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust gas treatment arrangement for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine includes at least one electrically excitable heating unit having a heating region arranged in an exhaust gas guiding housing such that exhaust gas can flow thereover, and two connection regions passing through the exhaust gas guiding housing for connectio...