ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,610, issued on March 18, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Detection method, terminal device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Lin Ma (Ningde, China), Ziyang Shen (Ningde, China), Zhipeng Zhang (Ningde, China), Ping Jiang (Ningde, China) and Gaofeng Lu (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method includes acquiring a first shot image of a long-side weld of a battery cell under detection by using a first structured light camera on a long side of the battery cell under detection, acquiring a second shot image of a short-side weld of the battery cell ...