ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,036, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Jabil Inc. (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

"Self correcting oven technology" was invented by Charles Santhakumar (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Harpuneet Singh (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Anwar A. Mohammed (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Michael Torregrossa (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflow soldering oven for soldering and/or bonding component leads both electrically and mechanically to pads on a PCB in an SMT manufacturing system. The soldering oven includes at least one thermal infrared camera that generates thermal images of the PCB to provide thermal imaging processing to monitor and co...