US Patent Issued to ATOP on Sept. 8 for "Method for quality control of a welding joint between a pair of ends of conducting elements of an inductive winding of a stator" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,486, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ATOP S.P.A. (Barberino Tavarnelle, Italy).

"Method for quality control of a welding joint between a pair of ends of conducting elements of an inductive winding of a stator" was invented by Massimiliano Giachi (San Gimignano, Italy) and Emanuele Angelini (Buonconvento, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quality control of a welding joint between a pair of ends of conducting elements of an inductive winding of a stator, the method being performed by a computer and comprising the steps that consist in: acquiring a 3D reconstruction of the welding joint; extracting a white 2D graysca...