ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,929, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to REUKEMA PARTICIPATIONS B.V. (Harderwijk, Netherlands).
"Recycling of scrap" was invented by Peter Carlo Rem (Delft, Netherlands), Yongli Wu (Delft, Netherlands) and Francesco Di Maio (Delft, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of recycling scrap is disclosed, comprising the steps of shredding the scrap with a shredder into shredded scrap objects, classifying the shredded scrap objects into fractions of scrap objects having different size ranges with a classifier, and sorting scrap objects while substantially maintaining interspace between the objects. Further, a singulating arra...