US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for controlled arc and short phase time adjustment" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,992, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlled arc and short phase time adjustment" was invented by Richard M. Hutchison (Iola, Wis.) and Dustin Wagner (Greenville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding-type system includes a welding-type power supply configured to generate output power for an arc welding process and a controller. The controller calculates a representative duration of a plurality of short circuit events and/or arc events during the arc welding process. Each short circuit event and/or arc event comprises a transitional phase, an intermedia...