ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,425, issued on July 1, was assigned to YAKULT HONSHA Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and SHIKOKU KAKOKI Co. LTD. (Itano-gun, Japan).
"Detection device" was invented by Kunio Komatsu (Tokyo), Masato Yamada (Itano-gun, Japan) and Takanori Yabuuchi (Itano-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a detection device that detects the occurrence of an event (so-called "double capping") in which two caps are disposed on one container. To that end, the detection device (10, 10A) of the present invention has two types of sensors provided on a production line (100) for a commercial product in which an opening...