ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,330, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZHENGZHOU TOBACCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CNTC (China).

"System for online testing of packaging tightness of cigarette boxes" was invented by Bin Li (Zhengzhou, China), Shuang Wang (Zhengzhou, China), Le Wang (Zhengzhou, China), Ruilin Hu (Zhengzhou, China), Jiakang Li (Zhengzhou, China), Ke Zhang (Zhengzhou, China), Nan Deng (Zhengzhou, China), Feng Huang (Zhengzhou, China), Qi Zhang (Henan, China), Lili Fu (Zhengzhou, China), Mingjian Zhang (Zhengzhou, China) and Bing Wang (Zhengzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system for on-line detecting the packag...