ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,848, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to QUALICAPS Co. LTD. (Yamatokoriyama, Japan).

"Marking inspection device and marking device for transparent edible objects" was invented by Kousuke Ookita (Yamatokoriyama, Japan), Kazuaki Matsutani (Yamatokoriyama, Japan) and Junsuke Yasui (Yamatokoriyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marking inspection device 100 for transparent edible objects includes: a conveying unit 2 that conveys, along a linear conveyance path 2a, a transparent edible object C on which a marking pattern has been formed; an inspecting imaging unit 30 that captures an image of the transparent edible object C being ...