ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,229, issued on June 17, was assigned to Jilin University (Changchun, China).

"Suspended-type spot welding device convenient for welding and assembling of various vehicle models" was invented by Zhenglei Yu (Jilin, China), Lixin Chen (Jilin, China), Yiwen Zhang (Jilin, China), Zezhou Xu (Jilin, China), Shan Jiang (Jilin, China), Long Ma (Jilin, China), Lei Dong (Jilin, China), Delong Gao (Jilin, China), Linsen Song (Jilin, China), Shouxin Ruan (Jilin, China), Xin Li (Jilin, China), Lidong Gu (Jilin, China), Jing Jiao (Jilin, China) and Hongbo Liu (Jilin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a suspended-...