US Patent Issued to Cryovac on Oct. 14 for "System for in-line inspection of seal integrity" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,713, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cryovac LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for in-line inspection of seal integrity" was invented by Honglei Li (Huntersville, N.C.), Kalpit Shailesh Mehta (Charlotte, N.C.), Solomon Bekele (Charlotte, N.C.), Dewitt Jones (Greer, S.C.) and Marshall Hewitt (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for monitoring seal quality of a packaging article. In one embodiment, the process for monitoring the seal quality includes sealing a film to form packaging article and forming a seal area. The seal area is analyzed by a vision system to acquire image data of the seal area. A vision inspect...