US Patent Issued to Mihir Kothari on March 24 for "System and method of laundry sorting" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,269, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mihir Kothari (Niles, Ill.).

"System and method of laundry sorting" was invented by Mihir Kothari (Niles, Ill.), Alexander Chan (Chicago), Jeff Faye (Chicago) and Michael Infanger (Park Ridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry system includes a robotic singulator. The robotic singulator includes an articulating arm and an end effector configured to grasp an item of laundry from a loading zone and to transport the item of laundry to a destination location. A camera is positioned in proximity to the end effector and configured to obtain at least one laundry image representing the it...