US Patent Issued to WILLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING on March 31 for "Method and system for calculating electrical characteristics of an electric heater" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,997, issued on March 31, was assigned to WILLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY (St. Louis).

"Method and system for calculating electrical characteristics of an electric heater" was invented by Matthew Yender (Winona, Minn.) and Stanton H. Breitlow (Winona, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling temperature of a heater including a resistive heating element includes measuring a voltage count and a current count based on data from an analog-digital converter (ADC) circuit of a sensor circuit, where the sensor circuit is electrically coupled to the heater. The method includes selecting one or more dynamic gain leve...