ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,341, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to EQON AS (Stavanger, Norway).

"Heating system comprising a resistive heat element, controller for such heating system, and method of controlling a load current through such resistive heat element" was invented by Christophe Tarayre (Bru, Norway) and Trond Spande (Stavanger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating system having: i) at least one resistive heat element; ii) at least two terminals for receiving a grid voltage from a power grid, and iii) a controller for being connected to the terminals for receiving the grid voltage, the controller connected to the at least one resistive hea...