US Patent Issued to Chemelex Europe on Jan. 27 for "System and method for electric heating trace system management" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,190, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Chemelex Europe GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for electric heating trace system management" was invented by Paul Thomas (Katy, Texas), Dan Caouette (Katy, Texas) and William Collier (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide an electric heat trace (EHT) control system for use with a piping system having pipes and capable of transporting a fluid. The EHT control system includes an EHT circuit for heating the piping system, a temperature sensor outputting a temperature value, a flow status sensor outputting a flow status value, and a...