US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on March 17 for "Smart controller for exothermic welding and related systems and methods" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,456, issued on March 17, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Smart controller for exothermic welding and related systems and methods" was invented by Manjunath GM (Bangalore, India), Curtis Stidham (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.), Amrutha SP (Bangalore, India), Rachin A (Bangalore, India), Maheshwar A Natu (Bangalore, India), Karthik Prabhakaran (Bangalore, India) and Hemanth Kumar Pennam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling the ignition of exothermic weld material includes providing an exothermic welding system. The exothermic welding system includes: a controller i...