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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2022
Sortera Technologies, Inc., Markle, IN (US);
Battelle Energy Alliance, Llc, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Nalin Kumar, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Manuel Gerardo Garcia, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Isha Kamleshbhai Maun, Arlington, TX (US);
Jeffrey A. Lacey, Ammon, ID (US);
Lorenzo Vega Montoto, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Sortera Technologies, Inc., Markle, IN (US);
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for classifying and sorting of dark colored and/or black-colored plastic materials utilizing a vision system or one or more sensor systems implemented with one or more medium wavelength infrared cameras whereby the captured image data is process within a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, which may then be sorted into separate groups based on such an identification or classification.