US Patent Issued to Erdman Automation on Nov. 11 for "Insulated glass unit manufacturing station and assembly line with controlled heating of spacer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,311, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Erdman Automation Corp. (Princeton, Minn.).

"Insulated glass unit manufacturing station and assembly line with controlled heating of spacer" was invented by Morgan Donohue (North Oaks, Minn.), Carl D. Enger (St. Francis, Minn.), Dale J. Hatch (Milaca, Minn.) and Larry M. Berning (Buffalo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating station for use with, for example, a high speed parallel manufacturing line for manufacturing insulated glass units, the heating station including at least two opposing infrared heaters that linearly heat spacer material that includes integrated temperature sensit...