US Patent Issued to INDUCTOHEAT on Sept. 1 for "Rapid and precise high frequency inverter initialization process for induction heating systems" (Michigan, Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,111, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INDUCTOHEAT INC. (Madison Heights, Mich.).

"Rapid and precise high frequency inverter initialization process for induction heating systems" was invented by Gary A. Doyon (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), Michael A. Nallen (Ware, Mass.), Randall J. Minnick (Lake Orion, Mich.) and Elik Dvorkin (Woodbridge, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for initializing a high frequency inverter in an induction heating system, to minimize the startup time and ramp-up time to a target power level of the induction heating system for precise heat distribution control in a workpiece...