ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,247, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Workpiece quality determination method and workpiece quality determination system" was invented by Takumi Kurita (Tokyo) and Yoshio Kanai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece quality determination system for determining the quality of a workpiece based on a stripe pattern projected on a surface of the workpiece includes an observation angle setter that sets an observation angle at which the projected stripe pattern on the workpiece is observed, a stripe projection angle setter that sets the stripe projection angle of the projected stripe pattern at th...