US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Jan. 20 for "Welding systems with automatic welding instruction generation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,984, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Welding systems with automatic welding instruction generation" was invented by Vincent Nicholas Romano (Pinckney, Mich.), Todd Michael McEllis (Jackson, Mich.), Leland Daryl Falde (Jackson, Mich.) and Stephen P. Ivkovich (Petoskey, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, weld monitoring systems may use position tracking systems to track the positions, orientations, and/or movements of an (e.g., expert) operator performing a welding-type operation using a welding-type tool 106. An instruction generation process may then be used to automa...