ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,343, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Syntegon Technology GmbH (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Device for checking a seal of a package, and method for checking a seal" was invented by Juergen Leidig (Frankenhardt, Germany), Florian Weber (Crailsheim, Germany) and Marco Hartweg (Braunsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (10) for checking a seal, in particular at least one sealing seam (12), of a packaging (14), the device (10) comprising a negative pressure chamber (16) configured to receive at least one packaging (14) and to generate a negative pressure in the negative pressure chamber (16), so th...