ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,053, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ceva Sante Animale (Cedex, France).
"System for detecting a filling state of a diffuser vial" was invented by Brice Cavelier (Toulouse, France), Marc Capdevielle (Toulouse, France) and Flavien Joly (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system (1, 100) for detecting a filling state of a vial (22, 220) of a diffuser (2, 200), the vial containing a product intended to be diffused, the system comprising an acquisition unit (3, 300) provided with an optical sensor (4, 400b) intended to be arranged opposite the vial in order to acquire at least one light beam tha...