US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Scrap material identification with filtration and reuse during sustainable additive manufacturing" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,551, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Scrap material identification with filtration and reuse during sustainable additive manufacturing" was invented by Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Fang Lu (Billerica, Mass.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for recovering LED light in indoor multi-level farms. A plurality of cameras and sensors capture in real time in a vertical farm environment a plurality of camera images and sensor data. The camera images include physical images...