US Patent Issued to Tomra Sorting on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for training a neural network-implemented sensor system to classify objects in a bulk flow" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,878, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Tomra Sorting GmbH (Mulheim-Karlich, Germany).

"Method and system for training a neural network-implemented sensor system to classify objects in a bulk flow" was invented by Dirk Balthasar (Boppard, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training a neural network stored on a computer-readable storage medium to classify objects in a bulk flow, the method including: providing input image data depicting objects to be classified, which input image data is captured by means of an input imaging sensor of a first sensor technology design; providing auxiliary image data, which auxiliary ima...