ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,540, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).
"Welding bead modeling method for wire-arc additive manufacturing, device therefor and system therefor" was invented by Hai'ou Zhang (Hubei, China), Guilan Wang (Hubei, China), Shangyong Tang (Hubei, China), Siyu Zhou (Hubei, China) and Runsheng Li (Hubei, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding bead modeling method for wire-arc additive manufacturing, a device therefor and a system therefor including using a dynamic parameter method, and using different welding process parameters in the same welding bead in the a wire-arc add...