ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,616, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS Corp. (Solon, Ohio).
"Apparatus for welding" was invented by Jianfeng Zhang (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Morgane A. S. Laurent (Clinton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A irradiation welding apparatus including an irradiation welding generator having at least one irradiation welding head configured to apply an irradiation treatment to end contact surfaces of a first profile and a second profile to join the first profile and the second profile, where the at least one irradiation welding head forms a planar cross-sectional shape in an x-y directional plane relati...