US Patent Issued to SCHOTT PHARMA SCHWEIZ on March 25 for "Detection and characterization of defects in pharmaceutical cylindrical containers" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,337, issued on March 25, was assigned to SCHOTT PHARMA SCHWEIZ AG (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

"Detection and characterization of defects in pharmaceutical cylindrical containers" was invented by Andreas Pfister (Jonschwil, Switzerland), Melchior Wedlich (St. Gallen, Switzerland) and Christian Klager (Abtwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for inspecting a pharmaceutical cylindrical container made of glass or of a polymer is provided. A corresponding method for inspecting the pharmaceutical cylindrical container made of glass or of a polymer and to a bundle of pharmaceutical cylindrical containers made of glas...