US Patent Issued to LINCOLN GLOBAL on Jan. 13 for "Welding or additive manufacturing system with discontinuous electrode feeding" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,811, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LINCOLN GLOBAL INC. (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.).

"Welding or additive manufacturing system with discontinuous electrode feeding" was invented by Steven R. Peters (Huntsburg, Ohio) and Judah B. Henry (Painesville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding system includes a consumable electrode, torch, wire feeder, and power supply. The power supply is configured to provide a plurality of waveforms to the torch to generate a welding current in the electrode. Each of the plurality of waveforms includes a pinch current portion followed by an arcing current portion, and the pinch current portion ...