ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,049, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Repair welding device and repair welding method" was invented by Katsuaki Okuma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repair welding device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an appearance inspection result including information about a position of a defective portion of a weld bead of a welded workpiece produced by a main welding that is executed by a welding robot, and a robot control unit configured to set a plurality of interpolation points on a virtual welding line of the main welding executed by ...