ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,095, issued on June 10, was assigned to Newfrey LLC (New Britain, Conn.).
"Method and device for joining elements to components" was invented by Bah Eissara (Giessen, Germany), Gerson Meschut (Paderborn, Germany) and Christian Reis (Giessen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for joining by welding a weld stud to a workpiece, with the following steps: providing a drawn arc welding device and a plasma gas cleaning device; providing a weld stud and providing a workpiece including a joining surface; cleaning the joining surface using a plasma gas cleaning method including the cleaning steps of: generating in the plasma gas ...