ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,170, issued on June 2, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Welding system, welding method, welding support device, program, learning device, and method of generating trained model" was invented by Keita Ozaki (Hyogo, Japan) and Akira Okamoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This welding system comprises: a welding device, various different types of a plurality of sensors which detect an event according to welding performed by a welding device; and an estimation unit which uses a trained model that is pre-generated by machine-learning by taking, as input data, a plurality of pieces of data for learning obtained...