US Patent Issued to Ball on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus and method of engraving machine readable information on a metallic workpiece during manufacturing and tracking systems related thereto" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,924, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ball Corp. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Apparatus and method of engraving machine readable information on a metallic workpiece during manufacturing and tracking systems related thereto" was invented by Julian Stock (Denver), Maxwell Peevey (Boulder, Colo.), John Efner (Broomfield, Colo.), Adam P.S. Stowitts (Arvada, Colo.), Kaitlyn Bock (Westminster, Colo.), Brandon Rinehart (Erie, Colo.), John Ross (Broomfield, Colo.) and Alin Scorosanu (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for marking a metallic workpiece for tracking and tracing the metallic workpiece thr...