ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,849, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fronius International GmbH (Pettenbach, Austria).

"Method for controlling a welding process" was invented by Dominik Sollinger (Krenglbach, Austria), Manuel Mayer (Edt bei Lambach, Austria), Andreas Waldhor (Pettenbach, Austria) and Angelika Kogler (Thalheim bei Wels, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to develop a welding process in such a way that uniform flaking of a weld seam can be guaranteed even with a higher number of short-circuit cycles, a specific number of short-circuit cycles is specified for the cold welding phase and the cold phase duration of the cold welding phase ...