US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 14 for "Process wire feed diagnosis and recovery" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,914, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Process wire feed diagnosis and recovery" was invented by John Forrest (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) and Brian Dellamora (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding setup includes an adjustable material feed system for a consumable welding wire. Speed sensors measure the speed of the wire progressing through the material feed system. A control module controls the material feed system to draw the wire into the material feed system and progress the wire to a working end of the welding setup. Speed data is sampled from the speed ...