US Patent Issued to KRONES on May 13 for "Method for checking a wall thickness of a container made of an at least partially transparent material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,119, issued on May 13, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Method for checking a wall thickness of a container made of an at least partially transparent material" was invented by Stefan Piana (Koefering, Germany) and Andreas Stopfer (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include: irradiating a container with a measuring beam of an irradiation device at measurement points along a measurement direction, wherein a signal indicative of the wall thickness of the container at each measurement point is obtained by means of an optical detector, wherein by means of an evaluation device, the measuremen...