US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods to control welding processes using weld pool attributes" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,473, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to control welding processes using weld pool attributes" was invented by Steven B. Massey Jr. (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for controlling welding processes in real-time, or near real-time, as a function of a measured weld pool attribute. The welding-type system includes power conversion circuitry and control circuitry. The power conversion circuitry converts input power to welding-type power for use by a welding torch to form a weld pool. The control circuitry control one or more...