ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,422, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Sensor fusion approach for plastics identification" was invented by Gearoid Murphy (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander Holiday (Brookfield, Wis.), Diosdado Banatao (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Allen Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shruti Badhwar (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for using multiple hyperspectral cameras sensitive to different wavelengths to predict characteristics of objects for further processing, including recycling, are described. The multiple hyperspectral images can be used to predict higher resol...