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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2023
Dmrc Llc, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tomas Filler, Beaverton, OR (US);
Vojtech Holub, Lafayette, CO (US);
DMRC LLC, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
Plastic waste items are sorted from a conveyor using a diversion apparatus (e.g., air-jets) controlled to act on item ejection target locations. An item ejection target location is estimated by sensing data from an item transported on the conveyor, and determining item identification information based on the sensed item data. This item identification data is then used to access stored metadata about the identified item. This metadata can comprise item catalog data indicating a set of plural different components comprising the item, target metadata indicating location of a desired item ejection target, and/or template (layout) data indicating shapes, spatial positioning and/or relationships of different component parts or areas of the item. This stored metadata is then used with the sensed item data, and sometimes also with discerned item orientation information, to estimate a spatial location of an ejection target for an item. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.