ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,444, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).
"Method for assessing a sealing of a carton package and an apparatus thereof" was invented by Onofrio Pirrotta (Modena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing a sealing of a carton package arranged to hold a food product is disclosed. The sealing is produced by using ultrasonic sealing technology. The method comprises capturing an image data set depicting the sealing, wherein the image data set comprises a first data sub-set associated with a first color channel and a second data sub-set associated with a second color ...