US Patent Issued to Watlow Electric Manufacturing on Feb. 24 for "Heater bundles having virtual sensing for thermal gradient compensation" (Missouri, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,356, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Watlow Electric Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis).

"Heater bundles having virtual sensing for thermal gradient compensation" was invented by Mark Everly (St. Charles, Mo.), Jeremy Quandt (Winona, Minn.) and Steven T. Jystad (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a heater bundle having at least one heater assembly with a plurality of heater units. At least one of the heater units defines at least one independently controlled heating zone, and a plurality of power conductors are electrically connected to the heater units. A power supply device includes a controller configured to ...