ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,169, issued on June 2, was assigned to Fronius International GmbH (Pettenbach, Austria).

"Welding assembly comprising a welding device and a welding component connected to the welding device" was invented by Franz Hofmanninger (Wels-Thalheim, Austria) and Christoph Ramsauer (Wels-Thalheim, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments reduce the draining of HF ignition energy via a data line for data transmission between a welding device and another part of a welding assembly. A decoupling apparatus is provided, in which a first data line portion of the data line is connected to a first coupling element and a second data line por...