ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,248, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to LuxTronic Inc. (Centennial, Colo.).
"Packaging line monitoring systems and methods" was invented by James C. Evans (Englewood, Colo.), Paul Stuart George (Denver) and Christopher J. Piekarski (Broomfield, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for mass packaging lines. In an aspect, a method includes creating image data by imaging objects on the mass packaging line using an imaging device while the objects are exposed to a light and using a processor having memory associated therewith to process the image data to determine a characteristic of at least one of the objects. The o...