US Patent Issued to KRONES on March 3 for "Method and device for detecting containers which have fallen over and/or are damaged in a container mass flow" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,867, issued on March 3, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Method and device for detecting containers which have fallen over and/or are damaged in a container mass flow" was invented by Stefan Awiszus (Bad Aibling, Germany), Udo Bayer (Thansau, Germany), Josef Paukert (Kolbermoor, Germany) and Aurangzaib Ahmed Siddiqui (Rosenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for detecting containers which have fallen over and/or are damaged in a container mass flow, wherein the containers in the container mass flow are transported vertically on a transporter, wherein the container mass flow is captured as an image d...