US Patent Issued to SORTERA TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 13 for "Thin strip classification" (Indiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,442, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SORTERA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Markle, Ind.).

"Thin strip classification" was invented by Lakshmi Chellappan (Markle, Ind.), Manuel Gerardo Garcia Jr. (Austin, Texas), Hoang Triet Giang Le (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Casey Hughlett (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorting system conveys a heterogeneous mixture of material pieces past an XRF system and a vision system. A classification of a material piece is changed to a high copper content aluminum alloy when the XRF system classifies the material piece as a low copper content aluminum alloy and the vision system determines that the ma...