US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on March 24 for "Methods and apparatus to convert welding-type power to welding-type power and resistive preheating power" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,048, issued on March 24, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus to convert welding-type power to welding-type power and resistive preheating power" was invented by Joseph Feldhausen (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example welding accessory includes: a weld input configured to receive first welding-type power; and power conversion circuitry configured to: convert a first portion of the first welding-type power to second welding-type power; output the second welding-type power to a weld circuit; convert a second portion of the first welding-type power to preheating power; an...