US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 23 for "Systems and methods to design part weld processes" (Michigan, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,731, issued on June 23, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to design part weld processes" was invented by Stephen Ivkovich (East Lansing, Mich.), Leland Falde (Jackson, Mich.), Vincent Romano (Pinckney, Mich.), Adam Pliska (Neenah, Wis.), Todd McEllis (Jackson, Mich.) and Ben Buhr (Green Bay, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to design part weld processes are disclosed. An example system for monitoring welding of components of a workpiece with multiple arc welds in a fixture includes: one or more weld sensors configured to collect data associated with the multiple arc...