US Patent Issued to HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK on Sept. 1 for "Method and apparatus for inspecting full containers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,990, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HEUFT SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH (Burgbrohl, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for inspecting full containers" was invented by Bernhard Heuft (Remagen, Germany) and Jorg Nonnen (Vettelschoss, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inspecting filled containers for foreign bodies, comprising: providing a planar illuminating device designed to emit radiation which radiates through a container to be examined; providing a detection device designed to detect the radiation which was emitted by the illuminating device and has radiated through the container and to create a photograph of the container...