US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Sept. 16 for "Methods and apparatus for pulse arc starting phase for welding" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,226, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus for pulse arc starting phase for welding" was invented by Shuang Liu (Appleton, Wis.), Peter Mehn (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Robert R. Davidson (New London, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for providing pulsed arc starting phase, where the system comprises power conversion circuitry configured to convert input power to welding-type power and output the welding-type power, and control circuitry configured to control the power conversion circuitry to output the welding-type power. The control circuitry is config...