ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,582, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hydro Aluminium Recycling Deutschland GmbH (Dormagen, Germany).
"System for analyzing and sorting a material part" was invented by Claudius Laska (Konigswinter, Germany), Ronald Gillner (Swisttal, Germany) and Dennis Winterscheid (Erftstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system for analyzing and sorting a material part, in particular a scrap part made of aluminum, comprising: -a feed means (110) for transporting the material part (120), -a sorting unit (160) which is designed to feed the material part (120) to one of two fractions (F1, F2), -a laser device (1...