ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,110, issued on March 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Welding system, welding robot control program creation device, and welding robot control program creation method" was invented by Akimasa Uchikata (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Okazaki (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding system includes a welding robot provided with a torch, and a welding robot control program creation device. The welding robot control program creation device is configured to acquire position information of a welding start point and a welding end point on a workpiece, and posture information ...