US Patent Issued to WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING on July 22 for "Method and system for providing variable ramp-down control for an electric heater" (Missouri, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,228, issued on July 22, was assigned to WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY (St. Louis).

"Method and system for providing variable ramp-down control for an electric heater" was invented by Brittany Phillips (St. Louis), Stanton H. Breitlow (Winona, Minn.) and Kevin Ptasienski (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one form, the present disclosure is directed toward a method of controlling temperature of a heater including a resistive heating element. The method includes applying power to the resistive heating element at a variable ramp rate to decrease temperature of the heater to a desired temperature setpoint, where the...