US Patent Issued to Robotic Technologies of Tennessee on Aug. 4 for "Method for precise, intuitive positioning of robotic welding machine" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,712, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Robotic Technologies of Tennessee LLC (Cookeville, Tenn.).

"Method for precise, intuitive positioning of robotic welding machine" was invented by James Walter Beard III (Cookeville, Tenn.), Stephen Lee Canfield (Cookeville, Tenn.), Stephen Giovanni Zuccaro (Cookeville, Tenn.) and Nicholas Canfield (Cookeville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent defines a method for making robot programming more intuitive for tasks such as welding. The method further is an enhancement of manual guiding methods of robot positioning and can improve situations in which finer resolution or control of the...