US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on April 29 for "Method for classifying a package" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,310, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Method for classifying a package" was invented by Mikael Larsson (Flyinge, Sweden) and Andreas Eriksson (Loddekopinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of classifying a package based on stiffness of the package, wherein the package includes carton and is filled with food product, the method including applying a force on the package, retrieving a sample value by measuring a deformation of the package caused by the force, determining a difference between the sample value and a reference value, and classifying the package as ...