US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 20 for "System and method for locally re-shaping a workpiece" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,283, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for locally re-shaping a workpiece" was invented by Joshua Solomon (Berkley, Mich.), Hui-ping Wang (Troy, Mich.), Lu Huang (Troy, Mich.), Joel S Hooton (Chesterfield, Mich.) and Dohyun Leem (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic methods and robotic system for processing workpieces are provided. A method for locally re-shaping a moldable workpiece includes receiving data in an input module indicating a present form of the workpiece; providing a robot configured to pass the workpiece through a machine; determining, w...