ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,927, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Enhanced control using AI in apparatus having IR camera heat detection system" was invented by Eric Wayne Becker (Phillipsburg, Mo.) and Hasan Imamus Saleheen (Millbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of joining electronic components to an electronic substrate in an apparatus includes: (1) transporting electronic substrates through a chamber housing including a tunnel extending through multiple processing zones; (2) detecting temperatures of the electronic substrates passing proximate to a heat detection system including at least one te...