ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,918, issued on April 29, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Support pin for catalytic converter with electrical heating disk" was invented by Peter Hirth (Munich), Sven Schepers (Munich) and Thomas Harig (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalytic converter for aftertreatment of combustion gases from an internal combustion engine, having at least one catalyst and at least one electrically heatable heating disk. The catalyst and the heating disk are each formed by a honeycomb having a multitude of flow channels through which flow is possible in a main flow direction. The mechanical connection betwe...