US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 15 for "System and method for controlling flow of solder in a wave soldering machine" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,833, issued on July 15, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"System and method for controlling flow of solder in a wave soldering machine" was invented by Jonathan M. Dautenhahn (Lake Ozark, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave soldering machine is configured to perform a wave soldering operation on a printed circuit board. The wave soldering machine includes a housing and a conveyor coupled to the housing. The conveyor is configured to deliver a printed circuit board through the housing. The wave soldering machine further includes a wave soldering station coupled to the housing. The wave soldering station...