US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on April 14 for "Distributed weld monitoring system with job tracking" (Michigan, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,034, issued on April 14, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Distributed weld monitoring system with job tracking" was invented by Leland D. Falde (Jackson, Mich.), Stephen P. Ivkovich (East Lansing, Mich.), Vincent N. Romano (Pinckney, Mich.) and Craig Jeffords (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for distributed weld monitoring using jobs and job sessions are described. In some examples, a distributed monitoring system comprises a central monitoring station in communication with a user device and a local monitoring station. A user may use the user device to enter weld monitorin...