US Patent Issued to WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING on July 8 for "Method of monitoring a surface condition of a component" (Missouri, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,907, issued on July 8, was assigned to WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY (St. Louis).

"Method of monitoring a surface condition of a component" was invented by Jacob Lindley (St. Louis), Philip Schmidt (Decorah, Iowa), Miranda Pizzella (St. Louis) and Mark D. Everly (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring a surface condition of a component includes providing thermal energy to a component, determining a thermal response of the heater in response to providing the thermal energy, and determining a thermal characteristic of the component based on a reference thermal response and the thermal response. T...