ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,886, issued on May 6, was assigned to DAIHEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Arc start adjustment device, welding system and arc start adjustment method" was invented by Shinichiro Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan) and Shugo Hirota (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arc start adjustment device adjusting an arc start procedure in a welding process comprises an obtainment unit that obtains welding data indicating a welding state during or after a welding process, and a procedure adjustment unit that adjusts the arc start procedure such that the cycle time of the welding process is shortened based on welding data obtained by the obtainment un...