US Patent Issued to Watlow Electric Manufacturing on Jan. 13 for "System and method for controlling power to a heater" (Missouri, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,683, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Watlow Electric Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis).

"System and method for controlling power to a heater" was invented by Stanton Hopkins Breitlow (St. Louis), James Hentges (St. Louis), William Bohlinger (Winona, Minn.), Matthew Yender (St. Louis), Keith Ness (St. Louis), Kurt Peterson (St. Louis), Eric Meech (St. Louis), Brittany Phillips (Saint Louis, Mo.), Larry Walters (St. Louis) and Geoffrey Rozek (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes selecting a state model control, as an operational state of the heater, from among a plurality of state model controls, measuring an elect...