ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,403, issued on April 22, was assigned to SORTERA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Markle, Ind.).
"Sorting based on chemical composition" was invented by Nalin Kumar (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Manuel Gerardo Garcia Jr. (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for classifying and sorting materials in order to produce a collection of materials that are composed of a particular chemical composition in the aggregate. The system may utilize a vision system and one or more sensor systems, which may implement a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials. The sorting is then performed as a function of...