US Patent Issued to Norsk Titanium AS on July 28 for "Contact tip contact arrangement for metal welding" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,519, issued on July 28, was assigned to Norsk Titanium AS (Honefoss, Norway).

"Contact tip contact arrangement for metal welding" was invented by Knut Struksnes (Gran, Norway), Trond Forseth (Ringerike, Norway), Arne Ramsland (Hole, Norway) and Andre Kristiansen (Ringerike, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact tip assembly having an electric contact unit containing a contact tip with an electric energy source, where the electric contact unit is positioned at a distance away from the outlet opening of a guide. The contact tip may be a replaceable tip that is biased or pressed into contact with a feed wire to apply a current...