ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,596, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Identifier management method, robot control device, and comprehensive control device" was invented by Hisashi Kataoka (Osaka, Japan), Toshinari Mohri (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuki Hanada (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; selecting, according to a predetermined rule, any one of the identifiers of the plurality of original workpieces to be a...