US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Sept. 23 for "Helmet-integrated weld travel speed sensing system and method" (Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,350, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Helmet-integrated weld travel speed sensing system and method" was invented by Kyle Andrew Pfeifer (Appleton, Wis.), William Todd Watson (Mount Prospect, Ill.), Richard Martin Hutchison (Iola, Wis.) and William Joshua Becker (Manitowoc, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding system includes a first sensor associated with a welding helmet and configured to sense a parameter indicative of a position of a welding torch relative to the welding helmet. The travel speed sensing system also includes a processing system communicatively coupled to the...