US Patent Issued to Roche Molecular Systems on April 14 for "Method for monitoring the sealing of a container and device with improved sealing monitoring" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,515, issued on April 14, was assigned to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Method for monitoring the sealing of a container and device with improved sealing monitoring" was invented by Paul Federer (Lucerne, Switzerland), Pius Hermann (Lucerne, Switzerland) and Stefan Vollenweider (Aargau, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the sealing of a container in a system or device is described. The method includes the following steps: controlling the heating element to heat a heating stamp to a predetermined sealing temperature, monitoring the temperature of the heating stamp, determining a t...