ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,826, issued on July 1, was assigned to Alexander Binzel Schweisstechnik GmbH & Co. KG (Buseck, Germany).
"Wire feed device and method for feeding wire" was invented by Sascha Rose (Fernwald, Germany), Udo-Ralf Kessler (Fernwald, Germany), Matthias Bender (Giessen, Germany) and Ralf Hellmig (Solms, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a wire-feed device for conveying a wire and to a method for feeding wire using a wire-feed device, in particular for a thermal joining apparatus, having at least one a drive element which can be operated by a feed drive and can be placed against a wire guided through the wire-fe...