US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Resistance welding methods, assemblies, and vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,813, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Resistance welding methods, assemblies, and vehicles" was invented by Zhenke Teng (Troy, Mich.), Tingting Zhang (Troy, Mich.), Andrew C. Bobel (Troy, Mich.) and Jason M Brown (Goodrich, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for resistance welding, resistance-welded assemblies, and vehicles including resistance-welded assemblies are provided. The method includes providing a workpiece stack-up including first and second workpieces and an intermediate material located between the faying surfaces thereof. At least one of the first workpiece and...