ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,272, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Reflow oven" was invented by Yuexin Chen (Suzhou, China) and Dong Zhang (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a reflow oven for processing a circuit board, the reflow oven comprising a heating zone having a plurality of heating sub-zones, in which the plurality of heating devices are arranged in corresponding heating sub-zones of the plurality of heating sub-zones, and each of the plurality of heating devices is configured such that a working temperature of the corresponding heating sub-zone is in a predetermined...