US Patent Issued to Gemological Institute of America Inc. (GIA) on Aug. 11 for "Melee gemstone sorting machine and methods for analysis" (New Jersey, New York, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,009, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Gemological Institute of America Inc. (GIA) (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Melee gemstone sorting machine and methods for analysis" was invented by Zhen Wang (Secaucus, N.J.), RJ Pisani (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Joseph Mcenery (New York), Barak Ergi (Fairlawn, N.J.), Yong Liu (Edison, N.J.), Hiroshi Takahashi (Morristown, N.J.) and Sudhin Mandal (Greenville, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a modular system to sort and analyze melee sized gemstones in an automated manner. The system can use a rotating tabletop design to separate gemstones for individual analysis and sorting. ...