US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on June 17 for "Systems and methods for additive manufacturing in a controlled short circuit welding system" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,246, issued on June 17, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for additive manufacturing in a controlled short circuit welding system" was invented by Richard Martin Hutchison (Iola, Wis.) and Todd Gerald Batzler (Hortonville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a welding system configured to perform additive manufacturing using a controlled short circuit welding process to apply a plurality of droplets of a wire to create a multilayer part comprised of the droplets. Operational parameters of the additive manufacturing system are dynamically adjusted based on data representing a ...