ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,453, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory Co. Ltd. (Zhangjiakou, China).

"Safety interlock failure prediction method and roll production system" was invented by Wei Wang (Zhangjiakou, China), Jin Wang (Zhangjiakou, China), Duanduan Li (Zhangjiakou, China), Fang Liu (Zhangjiakou, China), Weichen Zhang (Zhangjiakou, China), Jing Li (Zhangjiakou, China), Chao Kong (Zhangjiakou, China) and Xin Zhao (Zhangjiakou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for predicting safety interlock failure and a system for producing a roll package. The method for predicting safety inter...