US Patent Issued to Hypertherm on June 10 for "Controlling and delivering gases in a plasma arc torch and related systems and methods" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,082, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hypertherm Inc. (Hanover, N.H.).

"Controlling and delivering gases in a plasma arc torch and related systems and methods" was invented by Harshawardhan Jogdand (Lebanon, N.H.), Larry Benson (West Lebanon, N.H.), Liming Chen (Hanover, N.H.), John Peters (Canaan, N.H.) and Ross A. Smith (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, torch receptacles for coupling a plasma arc torch to a torch lead can include: a body having a first end to connect to the torch lead and a second end to connect to a torch body; a set of ports within the first end to fluidly connect to a set of fluid ...