ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,091, issued on July 28, was assigned to Belvac Production Machinery Inc. (Lynchburg, Va.).

"Device and method for preventing faults of an oven for producing containers, in particular cans" was invented by Ulf Reinhardt (Teutschenthal, Germany) and Wilko Harms (Wittmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device and a method for preventing faults of an oven for producing containers, in particular cans. The device comprises: a conveyor unit with transport pins, said conveyor unit being designed to convey the containers along a drying section; at least one measuring unit which is designed to: ascertain an ...