ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,452, issued on April 22, was assigned to Jinan Ruiheng Zhiyuan Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. (Jinan, China).

"Collaborative weld seam tracking method based on laser line scanning sensing and platform thereof" was invented by Chengrui Zhang (Jinan, China) and Yisheng Yin (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative seam tracking method based on laser line scanning sensing includes: scanning, by using a laser line scanning sensor, a weld seam to obtain an original sampling deviation value; coordinate converting the original sampling deviation value to obtain a converted sampling deviation value, and then obtaining a fi...