US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Resistance-welded assemblies and resistance welding methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,040, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Resistance-welded assemblies and resistance welding methods" was invented by Zhenke Teng (Troy, Mich.), Pei-Chung Wang (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. An exemplary resistance welding method includes compressing a workpiece stack-up with an interface material between first and second workpieces to squeeze a portion of the interface material to a reduced thickness. After compr...