ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,824, issued on July 1, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"System and method for short arc welding" was invented by Justin M. Durik (Greenville, Wis.) and Robert R. Davidson (New London, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of controlling a short circuit welding process includes: setting a heat target for at least a portion of a short state; monitoring output parameters during the short state; calculating a measured heat from the measured output parameters; comparing the measured heat and the heat target; adjusting a pinch current in a subsequent short state in response to at least one comparin...