ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,469, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ERSA GmbH (Wertheim, Germany).

"Network for controlling soldering systems and method therefor" was invented by Timon Ahlgrimm (Marktheidenfeld, Germany) and Klaus Rosenberger (Wertheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network and a method for operating a network is provided. The network includes one or more soldering systems provided in the network, and the soldering systems each include at least one soldering apparatus for soldering electronic components, a user interface for outputting target-soldering-information to a user; and a way for determining actual soldering information. The...