ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,707, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Applied Vision Corp. (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).
"Glass container inspection system" was invented by Benjamin James Crissman (Deerfield, Ohio), Richard A. Sones (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) and Andrew James Cantrell (Kent, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glass container inspection system an inspection area disposed along a conveyor belt and a computing system. The conveyor belt moves a plurality of glass containers through the inspection area. The inspection area has a plurality of cameras and a plurality of light sources, and the computing system is in communication with the plurality of camera...