US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on June 16 for "Method of and system for monitoring a quality of a weld" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,261, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Method of and system for monitoring a quality of a weld" was invented by Debejyo Chakraborty (Novi, Mich.), Preston Hart (Detroit), Mitchell Warchol (Columbus, Mich.) and Spyros P. Mellas (Waterford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a quality of a weld includes collecting a first sample of a shielding gas flowing between a gas source and a welding device; analyzing the first sample to determine a shielding gas composition and thereby monitor a quality of the shielding gas; and forming the weld on a workpiece with the wel...