US Patent Issued to Universe Energy on Sept. 1 for "Automated battery disassembly" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,295, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Universe Energy Inc. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Automated battery disassembly" was invented by Wiebe Janssen (Venice, Calif.) and Raymond Ruoqin Ma (Gardena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Batteries can be disassembled using robotics. One or more robotic agents can use the output of a suite of sensors to identify a battery type, and follow a set of disassembly instructions to disassemble a battery. The set of disassembly battery instructions can include a series of tasks primitives, where each task primitive is a selection of a tool, a motion trajectory for the tool and a disassembly task pe...