ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,110, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sick IVP AB (Linkoping, Sweden).
"Inspection of drinking straw" was invented by Anders Murhed (Linkoping, Sweden), Mathilda Larsson (Linkoping, Sweden) and Nils Hogberg (Linkoping, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and arrangements for inspection of a drinking straw (101; 201) involving use of the drinking straw (101; 201) as a light guide for inspection of a sidewall (102; 202) of the drinking straw (101; 201) based on light leakage of guided light out from the drinking straw (101; 201) via the sidewall (102), such a through a damage (204) in the sidewall (102). It is illuminated (601...