US Patent Issued to SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS on Aug. 4 for "Method for determining state-related information, for example wear-related information, concerning an ultrasonic welding device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,676, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH (Wettenberg, Germany).

"Method for determining state-related information, for example wear-related information, concerning an ultrasonic welding device" was invented by Michael Kueper (Giessen, Germany) and Manuel Fey (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining condition information for an ultrasonic welding device. The condition information specifies information about the current condition of at least one component of the ultrasonic welding device. The ultrasonic welding device includes, as components, a sonotrode, an anvil, a touching elemen...