ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,824, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Stolle Machinery Co. LLC (Centennial, Colo.).

"Sensing arrangement and system for dynamic measurements of can on punch and can bodymaker including same" was invented by Jonathan Scott Saunders Jr. (Englewood, Colo.) and Ian Kenneth Scholey (Barnsley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing arrangement for use in a can bodymaker includes a plurality of sensors positioned around, and spaced a radial distance from, a sensing axis. Each sensor of the plurality of sensors is structured to determine a number of characteristics of a can body positioned on a punch of the can bodymaker as...