ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,247, issued on March 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Identifier management method, robot control device, and integrated control device" was invented by Toshinari Mohri (Osaka, Japan), Hisashi Kataoka (Osaka, Japan), Takamichi Komatsu (Osaka, Japan) and Ryutaro Monden (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identifier management method is executed by a welding system. The identifier management method includes: acquiring information on identifiers of a plurality of original workpieces; randomly selecting any one of the identifiers of the plurality of original workpieces to...