US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Oct. 7 for "Smart welding helmets with arc time tracking verification and lens maintenance detection" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,792, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Smart welding helmets with arc time tracking verification and lens maintenance detection" was invented by William Joshua Becker (Manitowoc, Wis.) and James Francis Rappl (Neenah, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are examples of smart welding helmets with arc time tracking verification and lens maintenance detection. In some examples, the arc time tracking verification checks whether certain conditions are satisfied before tracking the arc time. This may make arc time tracking more reliable by preventing tracking during certain false ...