US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on Sept. 2 for "Method for detecting and tracking a feature of a web of packaging material" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,062, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Method for detecting and tracking a feature of a web of packaging material" was invented by Gabriele Borelli (Spilamberto, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (600) for detecting and tracking a feature of a web of packaging material (102), using a first capacitor (106) placed at a distance (d) from the web of packaging material (102) is provided. The method (600) comprises; feeding (602) a section of the web of packaging material (102) to a first position (p), so that the section influences a dielectric property of the first c...