ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,151, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

"Inspection system for an article treatment machine and article treatment machine having an inspection system" was invented by Michele Soncini (Parma, Italy) and Filippo Dazzi (Parma, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an inspection system for an article treatment machine for the packaging of pourable food products and having an isolation chamber delimiting an inner environment from an outer environment. The inspection system includes at least a separation housing mounted to the isolation chamber protruding into the inner environ...