US Patent Issued to AMP Robotics on Aug. 4 for "Heterogeneous material sorting" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,162, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to AMP Robotics Corp. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Heterogeneous material sorting" was invented by Matanya B. Horowitz (Golden, Colo.), Joseph M. Castagneri (Denver) and Carson C. Potter (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Heterogenous material sorting is disclosed, including: identifying a first target object associated with a first object type on a surface based at least in part on a first sensed signal; providing a first control signal to a first sorting device to cause the first sorting device to remove the first target object from the surface, wherein the first sorting device is configured to manip...