G01N 21/9054
Inspection of sealing surface and container finish
Official title: {Inspection of sealing surface and container finish}
G01N21/9054 (Inspection of sealing surface and container finish) appears on 160 US grants and 109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01N- Granted patents
- 160
- Published applications
- 109
- Assignees
- 94
- Inventors
- 293
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 7 | 2 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
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| 2004 | 1 | 4 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2008 | 5 | 8 |
| 2009 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2011 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2018 | 4 | 6 |
| 2019 | 6 | 8 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 6 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11 |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Package quality inspection station and a method for inspecting quality of a package12 May 2026US 12,625,084 B2Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Apparatus and method for automatic monitoring of lids of beverage and food cans10 Mar 2026US 12,571,738 B2Quiss QualitäTs-Inspektionssysteme Und Service GmbH
- Apparatus and methods of detecting defects in machine vision systems3 Mar 2026US 12,567,134 B2Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
- Glass container inspection system14 Oct 2025US 12,445,707 B2Applied Vision Company, LLC
- Method and system for determining package integrity30 Sep 2025US 12,430,745 B2Yoran Imaging Ltd.
- Method for contactless in-line inspection of containers, and station for implementing same30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219204 A1Tiama
- Leak detection using reflection-based imaging26 Mar 2026US 2026/0085993 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Inspection system for inspecting parts traveling on a conveyor20 Nov 2025US 2025/0354937 A1Applied Vision Company, LLC
- Container inspection device and blister packaging machine6 Nov 2025US 2025/0341477 A1Ckd Corporation
- Visual Inspection System for a Medical Device11 Sep 2025US 2025/0285262 A1Becton Dickinson France
Most cited
By later US patents
- Container sealing surface area inspection73US 5,896,195 AOwens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. · 1999
- Inspection of containers employing a single area array sensor and alternately strobed light sources67US 6,175,107 B1Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. · 2001
- Inspection method using area of interest (AOI) analysis52US 5,369,713 A1994
- Defect detecting method and system49US 4,606,635 AKirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha · 1986
- Article inspection system for analyzing end and adjacent sides49US 4,914,289 AInex/Vistech Technologies, Inc. · 1990