US Patent Issued to Tesla on Sept. 23 for "Automated exterior vehicle part assembly using global datum" (California, Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,879, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Automated exterior vehicle part assembly using global datum" was invented by Hunter Robert Normandeau (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Theodore Antony (Cypress, Calif.), Patrick Worley (Newark, Calif.), Brian Paul Greviskes (Chicago), Adrian Matthias Grossman (Palatine, Ill.), Mitchell Nollar (Austin, Texas) and Kevin Joseph Curtis (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an automated system and method for assembling exterior vehicle parts to a vehicle assembly structure. The system utilizes an automated assembly cell with fixtures c...