ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,302, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CYCLED TECHNOLOGIES AS (Skien, Norway).

"Waste sorting apparatus and method" was invented by Ayoola Brimmo (Skien, Norway), Benedikt Pilscheur (Peissenberg, Germany) and Walid Glia (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a waste sorting apparatus having a receiving compartment for receiving at least one object disposed by a user, an object detection system associated with the receiving compartment and configured to classify the at least one object in one of a plurality of predetermined types of object, and a sorting system configured for selectively directing...