ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,993, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Sensor fusion for welding quality monitoring" was invented by Quan Zhou (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein involve intaking sensor data associated with an arc weld from a robotic welding process, the sensor data involving thermal imaging data; executing a machine learning model on the sensor data, the machine learning model configured to output predicted internal parameters of a weld seam of the arc weld, predicted surface parameters of the weld seam of the arc weld, and a predicted quality of the arc weld associate...