ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,375, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to H&T RECHARGEABLE SOLUTIONS GMBH (Marsberg, Germany).

"Inspection unit for cans and method for determining the quality of cans" was invented by Mark Andrews (Sparks, Nev.), Dave Donegan (Reno, Nev.) and Keith Scott (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection unit for cans (11), in particular for metal cans used in metered dose inhalers or for the manufacture of batteries, comprising a visual inspection unit (9) comprising camera units (20), a conveying unit (8), wherein images of the individual cans are captureable by different camera units from different viewing angles, wherein t...