ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,062, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for inspecting cans" was invented by Stefan Piana (Koefering, Germany) and Rainer Kwirandt (Barbing, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for inspecting containers and in particular cans, having an illumination device which illuminates the can to be inspected and radiates radiation onto an inner base wall of the container, and having an image recording device which records at least one spatially resolved image of the inner base wall illuminated by the illumination device is provided. The apparatus has a first polarization dev...