US Patent Issued to FAURECIA EMISSIONS CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY on June 23 for "Heating device and method of manufacturing a heating device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,180, issued on June 23, was assigned to FAURECIA EMISSIONS CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBH (Augsburg, Germany).

"Heating device and method of manufacturing a heating device" was invented by Anton Berchtold (Augsburg, Germany) and David Saurat (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating device, and a method of manufacturing the device, comprises an electrically conductive heating foam, a current conducting foam and two electrodes. The heating foam is divided by interruptions into sections, providing a predefined current path extending from a current lead-in point to a current lead-out point. The electrodes are electr...