ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,446, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SUSTEON INC. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Electrically heated substrates, assemblies, systems, and processes for catalytic, chemical, and sorbent applications" was invented by Jian Ping Shen (Morrisville, N.C.), Raghubir Prasad Gupta (Morrisville, N.C.), Vasudev Pralhad Haribal (Morrisville, N.C.), Andrew Tong (Morrisville, N.C.), Jonathan Edwin Peters (Morrisville, N.C.), Monica Jayne Abdallah (Morrisville, N.C.) and Ryan Patrick Zelinsky (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article for joule heating is described, including a three-dimensional substrate on and/or in which a pyrolyzat...