US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on May 6 for "Systems and methods to control welding wire tension" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,887, issued on May 6, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to control welding wire tension" was invented by Marc S. Petit (Appleton, Wis.), Todd G. Batzler (Hortonville, Wis.) and Charles J. Romenesko (Hortonville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example welding wire feeder includes: a push motor configured to feed welding wire from a wire source; a first sensor configured to provide push motor velocity feedback; and control circuitry configured to control the push motor and a pull motor of a welding torch coupled to the welding wire feeder by: controlling a push motor velocity of the...