ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,003, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Nacelle inlet nested three-phase electrothermal heater" was invented by Richard J. Carpino II (Canton, Ohio) and Sarah Marie Kassinger (Tallmadge, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nested three-phase heater is disclosed herein. The nested three-phase heater includes a three-phase power supply, a set of three heating elements, and a controller. The set of three heating elements coupled to an aircraft part, each heating element of the set of three heating element coupled to a respective phase of the three-phase power supply. The controller is coupled to the ...