ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,862, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Resistance temperature detector (RTD) sensor-based fault status reporting for a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater" was invented by Gururaja Bambila (Karnataka, India), Manjunath Hiremath (Karnataka, India), Rhushikesh Patil (Bangalore, India) and Srinivas Magaji Gundu (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater apparatus is provided. The PTC heater apparatus includes a PTC heater, a resistance temperature detector (RTD) sensor mounted to the PTC heater and a controller logic unit electrically conne...