ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,475, issued on June 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Repair welding system" was invented by Takamichi Komatsu (Osaka, Japan), Toshinari Mohri (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuki Hanada (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The repair welding system includes an inspection device and a welding device. The inspection device determines whether there is a defective portion in a welded portion. In a case that there is the defective portion in the welded portion, the inspection device extracts at least defect type information of the defective portion and inspection coordinate system defec...