ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,067, issued on April 8, was assigned to Recology Inc. (San Francisco).
"Item sorting apparatus and interfaces therefor" was invented by Cary Chen (San Francisco), Maurice Quillen (San Francisco) and Daniel Shea (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for generating an interface that allows users to select and categorize particular waste items in real-time, for subsequent automated sorting. For example, detecting and identifying waste items, presenting them on a display, and allowing users to select items from the display and categorize them by selecting and dragging highlighted items to appropr...