ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,757, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Augmenticon AG (Glattbrugg, Switzerland).
"Automated syringe fill state measurement" was invented by Hilko Cords (Windisch, Switzerland), Yves Simmen (Windisch, Switzerland), Matthias Friebe (Glattbrugg, Switzerland) and Christian Schmidt (Glattbrugg, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for measuring the volume of liquid contained in a syringe having a barrel with a barrel flange and a barrel bottom surface and plunger with a plunger flange. An image of the syringe is captured and processed to determine a length dimension of the syringe that is characteristic of its ...