US Patent Issued to Amgen on Sept. 1 for "Apparatuses, systems and methods for vial seal inspection" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,943, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, systems and methods for vial seal inspection" was invented by Al Patrick Goodwin (Dunleer, Ireland), Joseph Peter Bernacki (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Thomas Clark Pearson (Newbury Park, Calif.), Graham F. Milne (Ventura, Calif.), Jonathan Parsons (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Corey Bishop (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Barry Donohoe (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Osvaldo Perez-Varela (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, or method for vial seal inspection may be based on three-dimensional data that is representative of at l...