US Patent Issued to TIAMA on Jan. 13 for "Method and device for inspecting containers moved on a rectilinear path" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,464, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TIAMA (St. Genis-Laval, France).

"Method and device for inspecting containers moved on a rectilinear path" was invented by Jean-Francois Garin (Saint Romain en Gal, France), Marc Leconte (Loire sur Rhone, France) and Pierre-Yves Solane (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for inspecting containers, comprising: providing a first source of light illuminating the containers, said source being composed of a plurality of elementary light sources that are controlled so as to define at least three illumination zones (S11); providing at least three image senso...