US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on April 15 for "Weld line data generation device, welding system, weld line data generation method, and computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,102, issued on April 15, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Weld line data generation device, welding system, weld line data generation method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Youzhuo Jiao (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenji Sadahiro (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weld line data generation device generates weld line data specifying a portion to be welded by a welding robot. The weld line data generation device includes: a recording unit in which possibility information indicating possibility of welding by the welding robot is recorded for each combination of configuration names of members; an extr...