ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,381, issued on June 23, was assigned to TIAMA (St. Genis-Laval, France).
"Optical computing methods and systems for inspecting a glass container in transmitted light" was invented by Olivier Colle (Oullins, France) and Raphael Druetto (Oullins, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided an optical computing method and system for inspecting in through light a container. The container is illuminated by elementary emitting areas each emitting a polarized emitted light with an emitted polarization property of interest that varies according to a law of periodic variation which, over a primary period, follows a triangular var...