US Patent Issued to CP Manufacturing on May 19 for "Device to selectively sort flexible objects from a mixed solid waste stream" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,724, issued on May 19, was assigned to CP Manufacturing Inc. (San Diego).

"Device to selectively sort flexible objects from a mixed solid waste stream" was invented by Nicholas Davis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sorting heterogeneous materials into homogeneous output is disclosed. The system comprises a conveyor, at least one sensor, an ejection means, a multi-axis arm for accurately positioning the ejection means (and optionally, rotating the ejection means), and a processor that controls the actuation of the multi-axis arm and the actuation of the ejection means based upon sensor input acquired when the str...