US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Method and apparatus for checking a connection during a laser-based connecting method" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,042, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for checking a connection during a laser-based connecting method" was invented by Christoph Arndt Dr habil (Moerlen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking a connection region formed during a joining process of at least two metal components via a laser. The method includes producing a photographic recording of the connection region being formed, transforming the photographic recording, creating at least two image strips in the photographic recording, and assessing the at least two image strips. An appara...