ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,299, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. (Perrysburg, Ohio).

"Glass container forming system and method" was invented by Paul Mohr (Waterville, Ohio) and John Holmes-Libbis (Perrysburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass container forming system and method for operating a glass container forming system. The glass container forming system includes: a plurality of workstations, each of which includes an equipment area and zone partitioning; one or more object detectors configured to obtain sensor data of an operator access area of one or more of the plurality of workstations, and/or a carriag...