MetroWest Business Digest for March 15, 2018 Posted Mar 15, 2018 at 3:01 AM
Lookout Farm participates in ‘Meet the Brewers Freshman Class of 2018’ Aaron Mateychuk and Will Morris, head brewers at Lookout Farm in Natick, participated in the “Meet the Brewers Freshman Class of 2018” for the Mass Brewers Guild on March 3. The Mass Brewers Guild is the state’s nonprofit organization that works to protect and promote the interest of craft brewers. The intimate, roundtable style tasting event featured the state’s newly opened breweries and offered ticket holders unique access to brewers. Mateychuk and Morris donated their beer and time to the cause, sharing their business story, answering questions, and talking about their craft in 12-minute intervals while craft beer lovers sampled their suds. The speed dating style event helps to foster deeper connections between brewers and craft beer lovers and inspire a greater education of the brewing process. The lineup included 7th Wave Brewing, Lookout Farm Brewing Co., Moby Dick Brewing Co., River Styx Brewing Co., Shakesbeer, Shovel Town Brewery, Turtle Swamp Brewing, Untold Brewing and Widowmaker Brewing. The event raised $3,000 for the trade association and was held at Lookout Farm. The annual event will return in 2019 and feature the state’s new crop of freshman brewers. For more information about the Mass Brewers Guild, or to learn about upcoming events: http://Massbrewersguild.org. Raytheon assigned patent Raytheon, of Waltham, has been assigned a patent developed by three co-inventors for “forced convection liquid cooling of fluid-filled high density pulsed power capacitor with native fluid.” The co-inventors are Anurag Gupta, of Canton; Robert R. Lopez, of Boxford; and Stephen B. Kuznetsov, of Marlborough. The abstract states: “A high density capacitor comprises a housing having a cavity, and a plurality of capacitors forming at least one capacitor bank disposed in the housing cavity. A native cooling fluid is disposed in the cavity, and a heat exchanger is coupled to the housing. A pump is configured to circulate the native cooling fluid from the cavity, through the heat exchanger, through the spacings along an outer surface of each of the capacitors to cool the capacitors using forced convection. The heat exchanger is configured to communicate a secondary fluid through the heat exchanger and draw heat from the native cooling fluid flowing through the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may have a plenum having a plurality of openings configured to dispense the native cooling fluid from the heat exchanger proximate the at least one capacitor bank.” The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2014. The full text of the patent can be found at http://bit.ly/2tD1Kr3. Bose Corp. assigned patent Bose Corp., of Framingham, was assigned a patent developed by two co-inventors for wireless audio synchronization. The co-inventors are Michael Elliot, of North Grafton, and Debasmit Banerjee, of Framingham. The abstract states: “A method of synchronizing playback of audio data sent over a first wireless network from an audio source to a wireless speaker package that is adapted to play the audio data. The method includes comparing a first time period over which audio data was sent over the first wireless network to a second time period over which the audio data was received by the wireless speaker package, and playing the received audio data on the wireless speaker package over a third time period that is related to the comparison of the first and second time periods.” The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2015. The full text of the patent can be found at http://bit.ly/2FRNAY3.
