US Patent Issued to SK On on Sept. 8 for "Laser welding apparatus and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,480, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SK On Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laser welding apparatus and method of controlling the same" was invented by Hoemin Cheong (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Hun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyeong Won Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chel Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ki Dong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser welding apparatus includes a stage on which a first structure and a second structure, targets of a laser welding process, are seated, a vision camera located above the stage and obtaining a sample image indicating a welding target region in which the first st...