US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIES MACHINEX on March 11 for "System for sorting materials with vacuum apparatus" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,357, issued on March 11, was assigned to INDUSTRIES MACHINEX INC. (Plessisville, Canada).

"System for sorting materials with vacuum apparatus" was invented by Marc Masse (Princeville, Canada), Adrien Boucher (Plessisville, Canada) and Jean-Francois Bergeron (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sorting materials comprising a sorting apparatus comprising a handling tool and a robotized arm for displacing the handling tool over the materials; and a vacuum apparatus creating a depression and having a tubing extending from a source for the depression to the handling tool where the tubing for the vacuum apparatus en...