ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,631, issued on July 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Repair welding control device that generates a second welding program by correcting a first welding program based on repair portion information" was invented by Toshinari Mohri (Osaka, Japan), Takamichi Komatsu (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuki Hanada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repair welding control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire repair portion information indicating a welded portion where repair welding is performed among welded portions in a workpiece welded by a first weldin...