ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,259, issued on March 17, was assigned to Terumo BCT Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.).

"Automatic power adjustments based on tubing state detection for tube welding devices" was invented by Jesse Janzen (Golden, Colo.), Jeremy Kolenbrander (Brighton, Colo.) and James Ladtkow (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tube welding device for joining tubes includes a first tube-holding assembly configured to receive a first portion of a first tube and a first portion of a second tube, and a second tube-holding assembly configured to receive a second portion of the first tube and a second portion of the second tube. The first tube-holdin...