ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,419, issued on June 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Assembly and disassembly validation of machined components" was invented by Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Partho Ghosh (Kolkata, India) and Bishnubrata Panigrahi (Vizag, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for validating proper installation and removal of machine components during an assembly or a disassembly process includes identifying a current step in an assembly or disassembly process. The method further includes displaying appropriate positioning and alignment for at le...