ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,669, issued on April 15, was assigned to SGD S.A. (Paris la Defense, France).

"Method for treating glass containers comprising an optical check of a quantity of treatment substance dispensed, and related treatment installation" was invented by Pierre-Luc Etchepare (Rouen, France), Christophe Depoilly (Aigneville, France) and Jingwei Zhang (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for treating the wall of a glass container (1), which wall delimits a cavity (4) and an opening providing access to said cavity (4), the method comprising: the dispensing of a treatment substance into the cavity, using a ...