ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,195, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Qingdao, China).

"Robot welding method and system based on semantic feature clustering" was invented by Chengxing Lv (Qingdao, China), Jian Chen (Qingdao, China), Yuguo Zhou (Qingdao, China), Xinli Xu (Qingdao, China), Zhibo Yang (Qingdao, China), Yuxia Yang (Qingdao, China), Yongling Wu (Qingdao, China), Qian Gao (Qingdao, China), Xia Lv (Qingdao, China), Huamin Zhao (Qingdao, China), Jiheng Yu (Qingdao, China) and Yinghui Dong (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot welding method based on semantic feature clustering; the method comprises: acqu...