ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,799, issued on June 10, was assigned to WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY (St. Louis).

"System and method for calibrating a control system operating an electric heater" was invented by Matthew Yender (Winona, Minn.), Brian Geer (St. Louis), Eric Meech (Winona, Minn.), Stanton H. Breitlow (Winona, Minn.) and Adam Kidney (Winona, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a control system configured to control a two-wire heater includes providing power to a load electrically coupled to the control system, generating, an initial measured characteristic and a calibrated measured characteristic of the load by the co...