US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 17 for "Orbital welding device with improved security and reduced failure probability" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,960, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Orbital welding device with improved security and reduced failure probability" was invented by Markus Tamm (Uberlingen, Germany) and Marcel Foh (Markdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orbital welding device (1) having a welding head (2), the welding head having a tubular mount (3) and a welding electrode holder (4) rotatably supported with respect to the tubular mount (3), the orbital welding device (1) having an electric motor (6) activated by a motor controller (5) of the orbital welding device (1), which is configured to drive the weld...