U.S. patent number RE47,918 [Application Number 14/589,317] was granted by the patent office on 2020-03-31 for system for tracking and analyzing welding activity. This patent grant is currently assigned to Lincoln Global, Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.. Invention is credited to Matthew Wayne Wallace.
United States Patent | RE47,918 |
Wallace | March 31, 2020 |
A system and a method for tracking and analyzing welding activity. Dynamic spatial properties of a welding tool are sensed during a welding process producing a weld. The sensed dynamic spatial properties are tracked over time and the tracked dynamic spatial properties are captured as tracked data during the welding process. The tracked data is analyzed to determine performance characteristics of a welder performing the welding process and quality characteristics of a weld produced by the welding process. The performance characteristics and the quality characteristics may be subsequently reviewed.
Inventors: | Wallace; Matthew Wayne (South Windsor, CT) | ||||||||||
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Assignee: | Lincoln Global, Inc. (Santa Fe
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Family ID: | 42677308 | ||||||||||
Appl. No.: | 14/589,317 | ||||||||||
Filed: | January 5, 2015 |
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14177692 | Feb 11, 2014 | RE45398 | |||
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Reissue of: | 12719053 | Mar 8, 2010 | 8274013 | Sep 25, 2012 | |
Reissue of: | 12719053 | Mar 8, 2010 | 8274013 | Sep 25, 2012 | |
Current U.S. Class: | 1/1 |
Current CPC Class: | B23K 9/0953 (20130101); B23K 9/0953 (20130101) |
Current International Class: | B23K 9/06 (20060101); B23K 9/095 (20060101) |
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