US Patent Issued to LINCOLN GLOBAL on April 21 for "Detection of contact tip consumption with welding" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,785, issued on April 21, was assigned to LINCOLN GLOBAL INC. (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.).

"Detection of contact tip consumption with welding" was invented by Matthew R. Pischel (Medina, Ohio) and Daniel P. Fleming (Painesville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a welding system for performing an automatic GMAW welding process. The welding system provides a welding contact tip configured to be attached to a welding tool. The contact tip is configured to accept a consumable welding wire electrode that is fed there-through during the automatic GMAW welding process to form an arc between a tip of the consumable w...