ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,066, issued on March 24, was assigned to Urban Machine Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"System and method for removing metal fasteners embedded in wood products" was invented by Andrew Gillies (Lafayette, Calif.), Brett Jaeger (Oakland, Calif.), Aidan Barry (San Francisco), Gabrielle Zacks (Berkeley, Calif.), Maxwell Micali (Oakland, Calif.), Alex Thiele (Berkeley, Calif.), Tyler Compton (Berkeley, Calif.) and Eric Law (Lafayette, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method includes: receiving a recycled wood workpiece in an inductor volume; accessing an image of the inductor volume; based on a set of features detected i...