ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,683, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Heating device with thermometers and thermostats alternately arranged on a heat conductor" was invented by Kazuhiko Kikuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating device includes a substrate, one or more heating elements arranged along the substrate, a heat conductor contacting the substrate, a plurality of thermometers each configured to measure a temperature of the heat conductor, and a plurality of thermostats each configured to measure a temperature of the heat conductor and interrupt electrical power supplied to the heating elements. The thermome...