US Patent Issued to Purem on June 23 for "Catalytic heater for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, exhaust gas system and method of operating an exhaust gas system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,955, issued on June 23, was assigned to Purem GmbH (Neunkirchen, Germany).

"Catalytic heater for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine, exhaust gas system and method of operating an exhaust gas system" was invented by Gerd Gaiser (Reutlingen, Germany), Bernd Weller (Durlangen, Germany) and Tobias Lehr (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalytic heater for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine includes at least one electrically excitable heating element, a hydrocarbon release arrangement for release of liquid hydrocarbon toward the at least one electrically excitable heating element...