ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,732, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Voestalpine Automotive Components Linz GmbH & Co. KG (Linz, Austria).
"Method for welding coated steel sheets" was invented by Gerald Brugger (Linz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for welding coated steel sheets, particularly steel sheets that are coated with an aluminum-silicon metallic coating layer, is provided. A configuration of two laser beams is provided, wherein the laser beams act on a weld pool that is to be formed, at least one laser beam rotates around a rotation axis so that the laser beams execute a movement relative to each other, and the laser beams are guided a...