US Patent Issued to Watlow Electric Manufacturing on Oct. 7 for "Power converter for a thermal system" (Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,175, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Watlow Electric Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis).

"Power converter for a thermal system" was invented by Stanton H. Breitlow (Winona, Minn.), John F. Lemke (St. Louis), James Hentges (Fountain City, Wis.), Keith Douglas Ness (St. Louis), Eric Ellis (Columbia, Mo.), William Bohlinger (Winona, Minn.), Matthew Yender (Winona, Minn.) and Dean R. McCluskey (Winona, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling an adjustable output voltage provided to a heater includes a controller configured to determine an input parameter based on an electrical characteristic of the heater, where...