US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Sept. 22 for "Portable battery-pack powered welder with wireless communication" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,332, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Portable battery-pack powered welder with wireless communication" was invented by Woodrow W. Walker (Milwaukee), Andrew D. Van Hoorn (Menomonee Falls, Wis.), Matthew Doyle (Elm Grove, Wis.), Timothy J. Bartlett (Waukesha, Wis.), Timothy R. Obermann (Waukesha, Wis.) and Steven C. Zbrozek (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable welder that includes a portable housing, a ground clamp, an electrode holder, a user interface, a battery pack interface, and a wireless communication controller. The ground clamp is connected to the portabl...