US Patent Issued to Hypertherm on April 8 for "Integration of plasma processing and robotic path planning" (Canadian, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,166, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hypertherm Inc. (Hanover, N.H.).

"Integration of plasma processing and robotic path planning" was invented by Garen Cakmak (Montreal), Daniel Marcovici (Sao Paulo), Jacques Barbe (Montreal) and Emile Bouthillier (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention features a computer-implemented method of planning a processing path relative to a three-dimensional workpiece for a plasma arc cutting system coupled to a robotic arm. The method includes receiving input data from a user comprising (i) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data for specifying a desired part to be processed from the t...