US Patent Issued to Abbott Cardiovascular Systems on June 10 for "Methods for counteracting rebounding effects during solid state resistance welding of dissimilar materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,083, issued on June 10, was assigned to Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods for counteracting rebounding effects during solid state resistance welding of dissimilar materials" was invented by John A. Simpson (Carlsbad, Calif.), Jeffrey F. Dooley (Oceanside, Calif.) and Matthew J. Gillick (Murrieta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a multi-segment device comprising an elongate first portion comprising a first metallic material, an elongate second portion comprising a different metallic material, the first and second elongate portions being directly joined togeth...