US Patent Issued to THE VOLLRATH on March 18 for "Systems and methods for thermal soft start control" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,041, issued on March 18, was assigned to THE VOLLRATH COMPANY LLC (Sheboygan, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for thermal soft start control" was invented by Jeremiah Kopiness (Saukville, Wis.) and Andrew Amrhein (Sheboygan, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature regulation device for food items includes a food pan, a heating device configured to provide regulated heating of the food pan, a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the food pan, and a control system. The control system is configured to control the heating device in response to at least the temperature of the food pan detected by the temperature...