US Patent Issued to POSCO on Oct. 20 for "Apparatus for preventing welding distortion, and method for welding pipe and flange using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,647, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to POSCO Co. LTD (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus for preventing welding distortion, and method for welding pipe and flange using the same" was invented by Jae-Yik Lee (Incheon, South Korea) and Kyu-Tae Han (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for preventing welding distortion and a method for welding a pipe and a flange using same, the apparatus being capable of effectively reducing welding distortion of a flange, which occurs during welding with a pipe and improving economic efficiency and productivity. The apparatus for prevent...