ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,478, issued on May 27, was assigned to Jilin University (Changchun, China).

"Anti-skid and wear-resistant automatic positioning tool for welding production line based on digital twinning" was invented by Zhenglei Yu (Jilin, China), Delong Gao (Jilin, China), Yiwen Zhang (Jilin, China), Long Ma (Jilin, China), Lidong Gu (Jilin, China), Lei Dong (Jilin, China), Shouxin Ruan (Jilin, China), Xin Li (Jilin, China), Zezhou Xu (Jilin, China), Yunting Guo (Jilin, China), Linsen Song (Jilin, China) and Jing Jiao (Jilin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an anti-skip and wear-resistant automatic positioning tool for welding pro...