US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on May 26 for "Systems and methods to configure a robotic welding system" (Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,734, issued on May 26, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to configure a robotic welding system" was invented by Steven B. Massey Jr. (Appleton, Wis.) and Kevin Gregory Pagano (Algonquin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed example methods to generate a robotic welding program involve: generating a robotic welding program to weld a part using a collaborative robot welding system by manually manipulating the collaborative robot welding system to generate commands and robotic positioning information; automatically converting, using a processor, a first plurality of instructions of t...