ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,883, issued on July 14, was assigned to Valmont Industries Inc. (Omaha, Neb.).
"System, method and apparatus for stud welding" was invented by Justin B. Boelter (Gretna, Neb.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for welding a group of welding studs to the surface of an inputted base material using a stud welding gun. According to a preferred embodiment, the method of the present invention may include the steps of: uploading CAD specifications for the base material; calculating targeted weld locations based on the CAD specifications; initiating a first set of side rollers and drive rollers to in-intake the bas...