US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on March 24 for "Tool based welding technique monitoring systems with multiple tool orientations" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,046, issued on March 24, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Tool based welding technique monitoring systems with multiple tool orientations" was invented by William Joshua Becker (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are examples of tool based welding technique monitoring systems that provide an inexpensive, intuitive, and relatively robust way of tracking an orientation of a welding-type tool, and providing welding technique feedback based on the orientation. The system requires no sensors apart from a simple and/or relatively inexpensive sensor module that can travel with the weldin...