ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,469, issued on June 30, was assigned to VERSA (Saint-Renan, France).

"System for monitoring movement of a plurality of containers" was invented by Jacques Moulinec (Brest, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to monitor the movement of a plurality of containers including at least one terminal having a photographic device. Each container includes an identification code. The first terminal extracts and decodes the identification code of each container before sending the photograph of that container to a database. A flash connected to the photographic device is triggered during photographing of the container. A controller, inc...