ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,310, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AMP Robotics Corp. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Separation of materials using sorting devices" was invented by Carson C. Potter (Denver), Robert M. McKenna (Thornton, Colo.), Matthew J. Koos (Lakewood, Colo.) and Dylan Welch (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Separation of materials using sorting devices is disclosed, including: receiving image data from sensors, wherein the image data corresponds to a set of objects being transported through a base sorting line; determining a subset of objects from the set of objects that are associated with a designated category based on the image data;...