US Patent Issued to ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS on Aug. 5 for "Polarity sensing welding wire feeder system and method" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,487, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC (Glenview, Ill.).

"Polarity sensing welding wire feeder system and method" was invented by Anthony Van Bergen Salsich (Appleton, Wis.) and Edward G. Beistle (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding wire feeder includes a welding wire feed drive configured to drive welding wire towards a welding application, wire feed control circuitry coupled to and configured to control the welding wire feed drive. The welding wire feeder includes power conversion circuitry configured to receive polarized input power from a welding power source via input connections with d...