ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,491, issued on July 8, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.) and Seabery North America Inc. (Annapolis, Md.).

"Systems for simulating joining operations using mobile devices" was invented by Pedro Gerardo Marquinez Torrecilla (Annapolis, Md.), William Joshua Becker (Neenah, Wis.), Justin Monroe Blount (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), Mitchell James Muske (Watertown, S.D.), Jessica Marie Marhefke (Neenah, Wis.) and Pavel Gunia (Huelva, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are disclosed relating to a mobile device mounted to a welding helmet such that a wearer of the welding helmet can see a display of the mobile devic...