ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,164, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for connector assembly verification in battery packaging" was invented by Wuhua Yang (Superior Township, Mich.), Thiagarajan Chidambareswaran (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Alex Jaraki (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.), Yanli Zhou (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Miguel Arturo Saez (Clarkston, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of verifying an assembly of a connector, the method including capturing at least one audio signal from within a footprint of an assembly line during the assembly of the connector; and verifying the assembl...