ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,618, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Methods and arrangements to aid recycling" was invented by Tomas Filler (Beaverton, Ore.), Ravi K. Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Tony F. Rodriguez (Portland, Ore.), Osama M. Alattar (Tigard, Ore.), Adnan M. Alattar (Tigard, Ore.) and Hugh L. Brunk (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste stream is analyzed and sorted to segregate different items for recycling. Certain features of the technology improve the accuracy with which waste stream items are diverted to collection repositories. Other features concern adaptation of neural networks in accordance ...