US Patent Issued to KOBELCO E&M, ImaCreate on Dec. 23 for "Welding training system, welding training method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,755, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KOBELCO E&M Co. LTD. (Kobe, Japan) and ImaCreate Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Welding training system, welding training method, and program" was invented by Yuichiro Aoyama (Osaka, Japan), Yasuo Oomori (Hyogo, Japan), Junichi Oono (Hyogo, Japan), Hideaki Ogura (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroaki Taniyama (Hyogo, Japan), Akihiro Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Kawasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (1) includes a distance determination unit (13) configured to determine a distance between a tip of a welding rod object used for a welding operation and a parent material object ba...