US Patent Issued to Fusematic on March 24 for "Automated portable friction welding system and method of operation" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,055, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fusematic Corp. (Edgewater, Fla.).

"Automated portable friction welding system and method of operation" was invented by John William Fix Jr. (Houston), John M. Griffin (Houston) and Thomas Foley (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated system, method and tool for portable friction welding is disclosed for joining a rotatable workpiece to a substrate. A control system is disclosed receiving a start input to cause a motor to rapidly spin the workpiece and initiate a first thrust building cycle acting through an actuator to progressively force the spinning workpiece against the subst...