US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Oct. 14 for "Robotic welding systems" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,911, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Robotic welding systems" was invented by Haruhiko Harry Asada (Lincoln, Mass.) and Haruhiko Eto (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic welding systems and related methods are described. In some embodiments, a robotic welding system may generate a target trajectory based at least partly on a trajectory of a welding torch during manual operation of the welding torch; and operate one or more actuators of the system to control movement of the welding torch based at least partly o...