ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,278, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Semes Co. Ltd. (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).
"Cap automatic fastening apparatus and cap automatic fastening method" was invented by Yoon Whoi Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ji Keun Song (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of fastening a cap of a container, the method including: specifying a screw thread engagement point of a cap and a neck ring of a container; and aligning the engagement point with a fastening start position of the cap and fastening the cap to the neck ring, in which the specifying of the engagement point includes detecting the engag...