ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,159, issued on April 14, was assigned to SIXONE LABS LTD. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Methods and systems for treating a heterogeneous mixture of materials" was invented by Jin Suntivich (Vancouver, Canada) and Christopher Wai (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for classifying a material in a heterogeneous mixture of materials, and predicting a processing method for treating the material are disclosed. At least some of the heterogeneous mixture of material pieces comprise different chemical information such as different chemical composition and/or physical characteristics. Embodiments of the system and met...