US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 3 for "Ultraviolet lighting systems with optical cables for curing paint" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,862, issued on March 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Ultraviolet lighting systems with optical cables for curing paint" was invented by Xiang Zhao (Novi, Mich.), Hua-Tzu Fan (Troy, Mich.) and Marcel James Isrow (Bruce Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes a robot arm including a first end and a second end opposing the first end, an optical cable extending between the first end and the second end of the robot arm, a lamp assembly disposed at the second end of the robot arm, the lamp assembly including a lamp holder having a plurality of ultraviolet (UV) lamps config...