US Patent Issued to OPTISORT on Sept. 8 for "System and method for sorting objects" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,444, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OPTISORT LLC (Horseheads, N.Y.).

"System and method for sorting objects" was invented by Parag Tandon (Dover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sorting objects is provided. For instance, the system includes a first and second sensor for observing the objects before and after sorting and a controller having an action agent module and a learning agent module. The controller updates, by the learning agent module, a policy matrix after sorting previously sorted objects. The policy matrix includes state data of the previously sorted objects including sensor data, an action performed ...