ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,864, issued on June 10, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Sanitizing wipe with metal detectable printed indicia" was invented by Robert Martin (Glenview, Ill.) and Paul Richard Jelonek (Geneva, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article is provided having a substrate with an indicia printed on the substrate, where the indicia is printed with an ink that is detectable by in-line manufacturing production X-ray, metal, or magnetic detectors. A package for multiple such articles is also provided. A process for detecting a sanitizable substrate wipe with magnetic, metal, or X-ray detection equipment in a prod...