US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 28 for "Welding condition setting assistance device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,521, issued on July 28, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Welding condition setting assistance device" was invented by Akinobu Kondou (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor is configured to perform: a spatter candidate region detection step of performing, for each of input images obtained by capturing a workpiece during arc welding, detection of a spatter candidate region based on a pixel value indicating brightness of a pixel included in the input images; a reflected light region identification step of identifying, in the spatter candidate region detected in the sp...