ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,080, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vision inspection systems and methods using light sources of different wavelengths" was invented by Guangze Li (Novi, Mich.), Brian Fischer (Royal Oak, Mich.), Hui-ping Wang (Troy, Mich.) and Jorge F. Arinez (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a station to support a workpiece having one or more welds and/or surface features, and first and second vision sensing assemblies. The first assembly is configured to illuminate the workpiece and generate an image of the one or more welds and/or surface features. The firs...