ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,540, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lisa Draxlmaier GmbH (Vilsbiburg, Germany).
"Contact welding tool and method for operating same" was invented by Anton Marks (Schwindegg, Germany) and Dietmar Wechselberger (Geisenhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure sets out a contact welding tool having at least one heating element for contacting a workpiece and at least one heat source for heating the heating element, at least one heat source being an infrared radiation source emitting infrared radiation in the short-wave infrared range. The present disclosure also sets out a method for operating a contact wel...