US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on March 4 for "Welding power supplies, wire feeders, and systems to compensate a weld voltage via communications over a weld circuit" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,063, issued on March 4, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Welding power supplies, wire feeders, and systems to compensate a weld voltage via communications over a weld circuit" was invented by Peter Mehn (Oshkosh, Wis.), Christopher Hsu (Appleton, Wis.), Maxwell Brock (Appleton, Wis.) and Quinn William Schartner (Kaukauna, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to communicate via a weld cable are disclosed. An example weld circuit communications device includes a receiver circuit, a processor, and a local communications adapter. The receiver circuit to receive a communication via a weld ci...