US Patent Issued to TEWS ELEKTRONIK on Oct. 14 for "Method and device for identifying capsule defects in a filter of the tobacco processing industry" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,954, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TEWS ELEKTRONIK GMBH & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method and device for identifying capsule defects in a filter of the tobacco processing industry" was invented by Udo Schlemm (Hamburg, Germany) and Jorn Eggers (Quickborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying capsule defects in a tobacco filter includes measuring values for density and/or moisture content of the filter using a microwave measurement device. The measured values are compared with a threshold value and a presence of a capsule defect in the filter is determined if the measured valued undershoots the thres...