ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,286, issued on March 11, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Electrically heatable catalytic converter" was invented by Sven Schepers (Troisdorf, Germany), Peter Hirth (Rosrath, Germany) and Thomas Harig (Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically heatable catalytic converter with a metal honeycomb body, the honeycomb body being formed by a plurality of wound metal foils and the honeycomb body being received in a casing tube, a device for electrically contacting at least individual foils being led into the casing tube through an opening in the casing tube, the device ...