ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,543, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Method and apparatus for controlling induction welding" was invented by Francis J. Samalot (St. Louis), Pedro P. Martin (Madrid) and Yannick Buser (Overijssel, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for controlling an induction welding operation. The method includes sweeping electrical current through an induction welding coil at an initial position of the induction welding coil along a weld path of a material; monitoring a response of the material to the swept electrical current using at least one electromagnetic field (EMF) sensor; cal...