ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,838, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SORTERA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Markle, Ind.).
"Sorting between metal alloys" was invented by Nalin Kumar (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Manuel Gerardo Garcia Jr. (Austin, Texas) and Isha Kamleshbhai Maun (Arlington, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material sorting system sorts materials utilizing an x-ray fluorescence and/or a vision system that implements a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, which are then sorted into separate groups based on such an identification or classification determining that the materials are composed of either wrought aluminum, ext...