US Patent Issued to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK on June 3 for "Method for welding zinc-coated sheets" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,865, issued on June 3, was assigned to TRUMPF LASER- UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).

"Method for welding zinc-coated sheets" was invented by Travis Stempky (Livonia, Mich.) and Chonghua Jiang (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of welding two metal sheets includes providing a first sheet having a first weld surface and a second sheet having a second weld surface. The first sheet has a zinc coating on the first weld surface. The method further includes arranging the first and the second weld surfaces such that the first and the second weld surfaces face each other with a gap therebetween, and irradiatin...