US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Feb. 25 for "Reading device and method to read identification signs assigned to original workpieces for a welding process" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,630, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Reading device and method to read identification signs assigned to original workpieces for a welding process" was invented by Toshinari Mohri (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Hanada (Osaka, Japan), Hisashi Kataoka (Osaka, Japan) and Ryutaro Monden (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identifier output method is executed by a welding system. The identifier output method includes: acquiring information on identifiers of a plurality of original workpieces to which identification signs are assigned, respectively, the identificati...