ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,651, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG (Laupheim, Germany).
"Method for identifying and tracking singly conveyed products" was invented by Dmytro Kostyrko (Laupheim, Germany), Christian Trautwein (Laupheim, Germany), Norbert Damaschke (Laupheim, Germany), Bruno Schiele (Laupheim, Germany), Andreas Strobel (Laupheim, Germany), Tom Kreutzer (Laupheim, Germany) and Volker Kummel (Laupheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for identifying and tracking singly conveyed products, which are cylindrical at least in regions, and have a peripheral surface to which a marking is respect...