US Patent Issued to THE ESAB GROUP on June 23 for "Manipulation of resonant elements in switching power supplies" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,732, issued on June 23, was assigned to THE ESAB GROUP INC. (North Bethesda, Md.).

"Manipulation of resonant elements in switching power supplies" was invented by Lars David Leif Juliusson (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden), Bjorn Daniel Landin (Molndal, Sweden) and Philip Magnus Andersson (Floda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to generate weld power for a welding process comprises: a power supply including a power inverter having multiple switches controlled by multiple switching signals such that each switch is alternately turned ON and OFF within each switching cycle of one of the multiple switching signals, to supply a cur...