US Patent Issued to Urban Machine on Aug. 19 for "System and method for autonomously removing fasteners embedded in wood products" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,915, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Urban Machine Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"System and method for autonomously removing fasteners embedded in wood products" was invented by Alexander Thiele (Oakland, Calif.), Eric Law (Lafayette, Calif.), Maxwell Micali (Oakland, Calif.), Andrew Gillies (Lafayette, Calif.), Tyler Compton (Oakland, Calif.) and Alexander Galitskiy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving a recycled wood workpiece populated with a set of metal fasteners; accessing an internal imaging scan; detecting the set of metal fasteners embedded in the recycled wood workpiece based on internal ...