ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,619, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"GAN enabled welding" was invented by Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Partho Ghosh (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a welding procedure includes determining conditions of the welding procedure using a virtual image of a structure on which the welding procedure is to be performed. The method further includes generating specifications for performing the welding procedure based on the conditions. The method further includes generating a virtual reference shape base...