ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,235, issued on June 17, was assigned to Corelase Oy (Tampere, Finland).
"Laser welding of metal pin pairs with time-dependent scan pattern and energy input" was invented by Peter Kallage (Hamburg, Germany), Oliver Forster (Guster, Germany), Oliver Kraus (Jork, Germany), Falk Nagel (Bad Oldesloe, Germany) and Stefan Schulz (Guster, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for laser welding a pair of metal pins delivers a laser beam to a work-side of the pair of metal pins where a respective pair of surfaces of the metal pins are adjacent to each other and face in the same direction. The laser beam first traces a first path on t...