ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,357, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).
"Method for quality assessment of a food package and a packaging system" was invented by Antonio Melandri (Rubiera, Italy), Paolo Scarabelli (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Mattia Verasani (San Martino in Rio, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quality assessment of a food package in a packaging system comprising capturing a first and second sets of image data depicting the food package at first and second stations, respectively, wherein the first station comprises a first image capturing apparatus, and the second station compris...