US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods to start a welding process" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,625, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..

"Systems and methods to start a welding process" was invented by Steven Blair Massey Jr. (Appleton, Wis.) and James Lee Uecker (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example welding system includes: a welding power supply configured to convert input power to welding power; a wire feeder configured to feed welding wire to a welding torch; and control circuitry configured to: in response to an initiation of a welding process, control the wire feeder to feed the welding wire at a first rate while controlling the welding power supply to output the welding power ...