US Patent Issued to Watlow Electric Manufacturing on July 1 for "Systems and methods for detecting the presence of deposits in fluid flow conduits" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,703, issued on July 1, was assigned to Watlow Electric Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for detecting the presence of deposits in fluid flow conduits" was invented by Miranda P. Pizzella (St. Louis), Grant Brewer (St. Louis) and Sanhong Zhang (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting accumulation of material deposits within a fluid flow conduit includes providing, by a controller, an excitation signal to a heating element of the fluid flow conduit. The method includes obtaining, by the controller, thermodynamic data of the fluid flow conduit in response to providing the excitation signal, wh...