ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,080, issued on June 17, was assigned to Edwards Ltd. (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).
"Induction heating method and apparatus" was invented by Laurent Marc Philippe (Gennevilliers, France) and Neil Condon (Burgess Hill, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present invention relate to an induction heating system for heating a component. The induction heating system includes a power module for outputting an alternating current, the power module being operable to output the alternating current at a variable supply frequency. A controller is provided to identify at least one resonant frequency of the alternating curr...