US Patent Issued to FCA US on March 17 for "Method for determining a weld design for a multi-weld component" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,341, issued on March 17, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Method for determining a weld design for a multi-weld component" was invented by Jianghui Mao (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Baizhong H Lin (Windsor, Canada) and Frederick J Zweng (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining seam weld length pattern for a component includes generating a baseline finite element model wherein each weld line having a base length, each weld line comprises a first end and a second end. The method also includes generating a first set of finite element models, each of the first set of models having one...