ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,055, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DAIHEN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Welding program production system and welding program production method" was invented by Shinichiro Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a welding program production system that can increase efficiency of a welding operation by a welding robot. The welding program production system includes a display control unit that causes a plurality of candidate welding lines detected on the basis of an image of a photographed object to be welded to be displayed in superimposed relation on the image, an input receiving unit that receives an input to...