ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,037, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to provide interfaces for control of welding-type systems" was invented by Justin Durik (Greenville, Wis.), Steven Blair Massey Jr. (Appleton, Wis.) and Craig Steven Knoener (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example welding-type power supply includes: power conversion circuitry configured to convert input power to welding-type power; a user interface configured to receive two or more inputs associated with corresponding qualitative characteristics of a welding arc created by the welding-type power, wherein the two o...