ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,351, issued on June 24.
"Automated testing 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: "Automated sorting of a sealable bag includes contactlessly scanning a surface or surfaces of a sealable bag (upper or lower surface or both) as the sealable bag is conveyed past an inspection station; obtaining a surface profile topology of the scanned surface; calculating apparent volume of the sealable bag from the surface profile topology; determining whether the apparent volume is within volume ...