ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,884, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Path Robotics Inc. (Columbus, Ohio).

"Techniques for multipass welding" was invented by Eric Schwenker (Columbus, Ohio), Dylan Desantis (Columbus, Ohio), Nima Ajam Gard (Columbus, Ohio), Paul Boulware (Columbus, Ohio) and Travis Peterson (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, that provide for welding techniques for manufacturing robots, such multipass welding techniques for welding robots. For example, the welding techniques may enable generation of weld instruction...