ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,865, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sortera Technologies Inc. (Markle, Ind.).

"Material handling using machine learning system" was invented by Nalin Kumar (Fort Worth, Texas), Manuel Gerardo Garcia Jr. (Lexington, Ky.) and Kanishka Tyagi (Meerut, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for classifying materials utilizing one or more sensor systems, which may implement a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, which may then be sorted into separate groups based on such an identification or classification. The machine learning system may utilize a neural network, and be prev...