US Patent Issued to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance on Sept. 30 for "Self-powered sensor unit for food packaging machine" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,736, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. (Pully, Switzerland).

"Self-powered sensor unit for food packaging machine" was invented by Gabriele Borelli (Spilamberto, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor unit (10) is configured to be mounted in the vicinity of an electric motor (20) in a food packaging machine. The sensor unit comprises: at least one sensor device configured to generate sensor data representative of an environmental parameter of the food packaging machine, a wireless transmitter for transmitting the sensor data, and a power source for providing energy to the at least one sen...