US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 8 for "Welding power supplies having dynamic current responses" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,766, issued on July 8, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Welding power supplies having dynamic current responses" was invented by Cody Bowman (Appleton, Wis.) and Richard Joyce (Sherwood, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example welding power supply includes: power conversion circuitry configured to convert supply power to welding current and to output the welding current to at least one of a shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) electrode or a gouging torch; a voltage sense circuit configured to measure an output voltage of the power conversion circuitry; and control circuitry configured to: control the po...