ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,614, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAINT-GOBAIN ISOVER (Courbevoie, France).
"Method for detecting glass-ceramic materials" was invented by Hugues Chenneviere (Colombes, France) and Ezzeddine Ouerghemmi (Antony, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method for detecting glass-ceramic materials in cullet, includes detecting the glass-ceramic material in cullet, during which fragments thought to be glass-ceramic material are identified in the cullet, obtaining a digital image resulting from the detecting of the glass-ceramic material, the image including at least one group of pixels corresponding to a fragment thoug...