US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on March 24 for "Welding sequence guidance using three dimensional models" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,047, issued on March 24, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Welding sequence guidance using three dimensional models" was invented by Vincent Nicholas Romano (Pinckney, Mich.), Todd Michael McEllis (Jackson, Mich.) and Leland Daryl Falde (Jackson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed relating to welding sequence guidance using three-dimensional (3D) models. In some examples, a welding sequence program may use 3D models, rather than two-dimensional (2D) images, to guide operators through welding sequences. Since only one 3D model must be saved for each sequence, rather than p...