US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on April 7 for "Welding power supplies and user interfaces for welding power supplies" (Ohio, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,618, issued on April 7, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..

"Welding power supplies and user interfaces for welding power supplies" was invented by Darrell Lee Sickels (Troy, Ohio) and Craig Steven Knoener (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed example power supplies, user interfaces, and methods are provided for simple and intuitive setup for configurable and/or default settings for a welding power source and/or wire feeder. The welding parameters may correspond to a default and/or factory setting that represents empirically adduced values for a particular welding procedure (e.g., based on material type, elec...