US Patent Issued to TIAMIA on April 1 for "Method for detecting defects of the horizontal mold seal for glass containers" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,035, issued on April 1, was assigned to TIAMIA (Saint-Genis-Laval, France).

"Method for detecting defects of the horizontal mold seal for glass containers" was invented by Lubin Fayolle (Brignais, France) and Julien Fouilloux (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting, on the finish of containers, defects in a horizontal mold seal of the container includes the steps of disposing the container between a light source and a camera and ensuring the rotation of the container on itself according to one rotational revolution. The camera acquires, at each increment of rotation of the container, an image so that the ...