ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,735, issued on May 26, was assigned to MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC. (Aurora, Canada).
"Weld quality inspection system" was invented by Sreevidhya Kariat (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weld quality inspection system for indicating a quality of a weld during a welding process on at least one work piece. The weld quality inspection system includes an infrared camera configured to provide visual data of a weld pool. A microphone is configured to provide audio data of an arc of a welder. At least one operational technology (OT) data source is configured to provide OT data. A controller is configured to receive the visual data, t...