ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,437, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Spot welding system" was invented by Yasuhiro Amagata (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a spot welding system of high reliability which, when an abnormality such as a spot missing in spot welding occurs, is capable of more precisely and accurately detecting this immediately. Provided are a robot-side system having a robot and a robot-side control unit which controls driving of the robot; and a welder-side system having a welding gun mounted to the robot, and a welder-side control unit, in which the robot-side system includes: a storage un...