ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,262, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BinIt Inc. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Method and system for hazardous item detection" was invented by Raghav Mecheri (New York) and James Benjamin Bollas (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting hazardous items in a recycling facility, including: receiving, from a first non-visible spectrum image capturing device, a first non-visible spectrum image of items on a conveyor belt. The system and method may include providing, to an AI module, the first non-visible spectrum image of the items on the conveyor belt, where the AI module includes functionality to identify featur...