US Patent Issued on July 14 for "System and method for heating a part" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,152, issued on July 14.

"System and method for heating a part" was invented by James William Masten Jr. (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for heat treating a part includes an oven chamber, a first infrared (IR) emitter configured to deliver a first amount of IR energy to a first region of the part, a second IR emitter configured to deliver a second amount of IR energy different from the first amount of energy to a second region of the part, and a receiver with an outer surface configured to contact a second surface of the part and shield the second surface of the part from infrared radiation. The part can be hea...