ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,837, issued on Aug. 19.
"Machine-assisted inspection of sealable bags" was invented by Aaron Thomas Bacon (Garden Grove, Calif.), Aerick William Bacon (Garden Grove, Calif.) and Thomas Dell Bacon (Garden Grove, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine-assisted determination of whether a sealable bag is or is not properly sealed, wherein a surface or surfaces of the sealable bag is contactlessly scanned as the sealable bag is conveyed past an inspection station so as to obtain a depth map describing a surface profile topology of the scanned surface. The depth map of the scanned surface of the sealable bag is provided to the inp...