US Patent Issued to WILCO on Feb. 11 for "Apparatus for detecting a gas in a headspace of a container" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,262, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to WILCO AG (Wohlen, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for detecting a gas in a headspace of a container" was invented by Christophe Herdlitschka (Zurich, Switzerland) and Matthias Kahl (Lorrach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter-receiver arrangement for measuring concentration of gas and/or for measuring pressure in a container headspace, wherein the transmitter-receiver arrangement defines a measuring zone accommodating the headspace, and the transmitter-receiver arrangement includes a transmitter to emit electromagnetic radiation covering a wavelength range including an absorption lin...