R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Luke Hutchens

Gary Lee Wood

Hung Phan

Chris Campbell

Hugh Gates

Jim Belk

Zach Francis

Reginald Thomas

A smoking article package inspection system configured to inspect a smoking article package is provided. The system includes imaging devices configured to capture images of the smoking article package and an analysis unit configured to analyze the images captured by the imaging devices and determine whether the smoking article package is defective. The imaging devices may be positioned and configured to capture images of the smoking article package at least one of: before and after enclosing a plurality of smoking articles in the smoking article package, before and after printing an identifier on the smoking article package, and before and after wrapping the smoking article package with an outer wrapper. A related method is also provided.

Smoking article package inspection system and associated method

Growing community of inventors

East Bend, NC, United States of America

Luke Hutchens