ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,386, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Weld quality inspection with domain knowledge infused adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system" was invented by Shashwat Shahi (Bangalore, India), Shailesh Shankar Deshpande (Pune, India), Gargi Uday Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Mahesh Kshirsagar (Mumbai, India) and Sonam Sharma (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quality of weld images in with bad lighting condition and specific image color formats add constraints to existing automated weld inspection systems. Embodiments herein provide a method and system based on Domain Knowledge I...