US Patent Issued to Watlow Electric Manufacturing on April 8 for "Heater bundles for thermal gradient compensation" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,577, issued on April 8, was assigned to Watlow Electric Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis).

"Heater bundles for thermal gradient compensation" was invented by Mark Everly (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater bundle includes a plurality of heater assemblies, at least one of the heater assemblies including a plurality of heater units, at least one of the heater units defining at least one independently controlled heating zone. A thermal provision is configured to modify a thermal conductance along a length of the at least one heater assembly to compensate for non-uniform temperatures within at least one heater unit. The...