US Patent Issued to LINCOLN GLOBAL on May 12 for "Welding electrode with functional coatings" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,307, issued on May 12, was assigned to LINCOLN GLOBAL INC. (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.).

"Welding electrode with functional coatings" was invented by Badri Narayanan (Highland Heights, Ohio), Vivek Sengupta (Toronto), David B. Russell (Madison, Ohio), Stephen Farah (Broadview Heights, Ohio) and Yijian Zhou (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology generally relates welding electrodes, and more particularly to consumable welding electrodes having functional coatings. In one aspect, a welding electrode comprises a core wire having a base metal composition and two or more coatings covering at least a porti...