ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,792, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. (Ningde, China).

"Welding defect detection method and apparatus, storage medium, and program product" was invented by Donglu Han (Ningde, China), Lin Ma (Ningde, China), Pengfei Meng (Ningde, China), Zerong Cao (Ningde, China) and Zhipeng Chen (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a welding defect detection method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a program product, and relates to the field of batteries. A weld region and non-weld regions are obtained by using a first image having structural information, a plur...