US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 16 for "Vision inspection systems and methods for laser welds" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,682, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vision inspection systems and methods for laser welds" was invented by Guangze Li (Novi, Mich.), Hui-ping Wang (Troy, Mich.), Christopher Warmack (Goodrich, Mich.), Robert S. Bucchi (Lake Orion, Mich.), Robert T. Szymanski (St. Clair Township, Mich.), Paolo A. Novelletto (LaSalle, Canada), Baixuan Yang (Canton, Mich.) and Weitian Zhou (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vision inspection system for laser welds includes a scanning station to support a workpiece including one or more laser welds. A vision sensing assembly includes a top su...