US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 14 for "System and method for determining whether to clean a reflow oven" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,878, issued on July 14, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"System and method for determining whether to clean a reflow oven" was invented by Shenghu Yan (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed example systems for determining whether to clean a reflow oven include: an image acquisition device, a processing unit, and a determining unit. The image acquisition device acquires an image of the interior of the reflow oven when the reflow oven is in a closed state, and stores the acquired image. The image acquisition device is conveyed through a reflow oven chamber of the reflow oven to acquire the im...