ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,871, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Tomra Sorting GmbH (Mulheim-Karlich, Germany).
"Apparatus for detecting matter" was invented by Dirk Balthasar (Boppard, Germany), Michael Mayer (Neuwied-Oberbieber, Germany), Patrick Sturm (Koblenz, Germany) and Tobias Tuckmantel (Wuppertal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for detecting matter including: a light source arrangement adapted to emit a first and a second set of light beams towards a first detection zone through which the matter is provided. A spectroscopy system adapted to receive and analyse light which is reflected and/or scattered by matter in the first dete...