ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,369, issued on April 15, was assigned to Path Robotics Inc. (Columbus, Ohio).

"Generating simulated weld paths for a welding robot" was invented by Alexander James Lonsberry (Gahanna, Ohio), Andrew Gordon Lonsberry (Columbus, Ohio), Matthew Klein (Columbus, Ohio), Surag Balajepalli (Columbus, Ohio), Chaojie Feng (Dublin, Ohio), Rachit Aggarwal (Columbus, Ohio) and Raghav Sood (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method for determining weldable and unweldable portions of a seam comprises receiving a representation of a part including the seam. The method also includes discretizing a representation of the s...