ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,241, issued on June 17, was assigned to CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Chongqing, China).

"Robot welding assembly mechanism and application in annular welding seam detection and postweld heat treatment" was invented by Limeng Yin (Chongqing, China), Hehe Zhang (Chongqing, China), Long Zhang (Chongqing, China), Wei Feng (Chongqing, China), Yuhua Chen (Chongqing, China), Xuejun Wang (Chongqing, China), Yuan Zhang (Chongqing, China), Jing Wang (Chongqing, China) and Chengjie Zhang (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a robot welding assembly mechanism and an application in annular welding seam d...