US Patent Issued to Inductotherm on July 28 for "Electric induction heating and melting furnace refractory life cycle wear imaging and processing" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,564, issued on July 28, was assigned to Inductotherm Corp. (Rancocas, N.J.).

"Electric induction heating and melting furnace refractory life cycle wear imaging and processing" was invented by Satyen N. Prabhu (Voorhes, N.J.) and Adam J. Westerland (Mount Laurel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for life cycle wear monitoring of a consumable refractory in an electric induction furnace used for heating and melting materials by accumulating laser imaging data of the refractory's inner surface periodically over the refractory's life cycle while the furnace is utilized in a foundry environment and processing the ac...