ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,822, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Inspection system for welded portion" was invented by Ryoji Kumagai (Toyota, Japan), Yusuke Matsuoka (Nagoya, Japan) and Hisanori Kobayashi (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system for a welded portion in welding includes a display unit, an acquisition unit that acquires a reference position of a welded portion stored in the storage device, a display control unit that displays, on the display unit, a reference position image that is an image showing a reference position virtually superimposed on an image of an object to be welded...