US Patent Issued to Structural Services on July 28 for "Stud welding ferrule and apparatus" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,522, issued on July 28, was assigned to Structural Services Inc. (Bethlehem, Pa.).

"Stud welding ferrule and apparatus" was invented by James T. Benzing (Bethlehem, Pa.) and William R. Haller (Bethlehem, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically identifying one or more welding site locations on a surface of a target metal marked with a plurality of welding site candidates, includes an imager configured to acquire an image of the surface of the target metal, wherein the acquired image includes a plurality of pixels each having a corresponding intensity value; and a processing circuit configured to: compare each int...