ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,944, issued on May 20.
"Material separation system" was invented by Hiroki Tachikake (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material separation system includes circuitry configured to acquire a composite image capturing a plurality of commingled pieces of material, and sets a number of candidate separation positions based on the composite image. The circuitry is further configured to identify, for each of the candidate separation positions, a subset of the plurality of commingled pieces of material, and calculate an estimated mass of each subset of the plurality of commingled pieces of material. The circuitry is further con...