US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on Oct. 6 for "Work measuring method and welding system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,432, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Work measuring method and welding system" was invented by Tatsuya Yoshimoto (Kobe, Japan) and Akira Okamoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work measuring method for measuring a work including a columnar member and a diaphragm and held by a positioner includes an acquiring step of acquiring point cloud data on a surface of the work held by the positioner and photographed in a predetermined direction, a detecting step of identifying a portion where distribution of the point cloud data changes in a three-dimensional coordinate system of the positioner a...