US Patent Issued to Amgen on April 21 for "Systems and methods for automated in-line plunger depth measurement" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,789, issued on April 21, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automated in-line plunger depth measurement" was invented by Al Patrick Goodwin (Dunleer, Ireland), Graham F. Milne (Ventura, Calif.), Thomas C. Pearson (Newbury Park, Calif.) and Jordan Ray Fine (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated inspection system includes a sensor system that includes a sensor and is configured to generate a plurality of syringe scans by scanning each of a plurality of syringes. Each of the plurality of syringe scans is indicative of distance relative to the sensor. The automated inspecti...