US Patent Issued to Key Technology on March 3 for "Methods and apparatus for inspecting and sorting" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,279, issued on March 3, was assigned to Key Technology Inc (Walla Walla, Wash.).

"Methods and apparatus for inspecting and sorting" was invented by Peter Lodewyckx (Meensel-Kiezegem, Belgium), Marc Van Daele (Diepenbeek, Belgium) and Timothy Justice (Walla Walla, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for sorting is described, and which includes providing a product stream formed of individual objects of interest having feature aspects which can be detected; generating multiple images of each of the respective objects of interest; classifying the feature aspects of the objects of interest; identifying complementar...