US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 7 for "Welding method, identification sign assignment device, and weldment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,617, issued on April 7, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Welding method, identification sign assignment device, and weldment" was invented by Kazuki Hanada (Osaka, Japan), Takamichi Komatsu (Osaka, Japan), Hisashi Kataoka (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuyuki Nakashima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A welding method is executed by a welding system in which identification signs are arranged on a plurality of original workpieces to be used in a welding process, respectively. On the identification signs, identifiers of the respective original workpieces are readable. The welding me...