ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,560, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JX ADVANCED METALS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for processing electrical and electronic component scraps and apparatus for processing electronic component scraps" was invented by Katsushi Aoki (Hitachi, Japan) and Hiroshi Kawano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for processing electrical and electronic component scraps and an apparatus for processing electrical and electronic component scraps that can more efficiently sort out desired component scraps from electrical and electronic component scraps using an image recognition processing technique and a sorting device. A metho...