ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,346, issued on May 20, was assigned to Qcify Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Product target quality control system with intelligent sorting" was invented by Raf Peeters (San Mateo, Calif.), Pieter Boogaerts (Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium), Jef de Busser (Geel, Belgium), Antoon de Cleen (Diest, Belgium), Simon Kerkhofs (Zonhoven, Belgium) and Pieter Ieven (Genk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes receiving a target quality value, receiving a measured quality value, and sending an inspection control instruction. The inspection control instruction is based at least in part on the target quality value and the measured q...