Patents Examined by Kalyanvenkateshware Kumar
  • System and method for sorting items
    Patent number: 10099256
    Abstract: A system and associated method is provided for sorting parts, which includes a conveyor system for receiving and circulating a plurality of randomly presented parts, a sorting buffer for accumulating selected parts from the plurality of randomly presented parts in an assigned buffer location, and a sequencing system for sequencing the accumulated selected parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James Clete Culp, Stanley E. Sankaran
  • Method for recovering clay in particular derived from foundry sands and industrial soil to be cleaned up
    Patent number: 8225935
    Abstract: A method and a device for recovering clay derived from a contaminated raw material containing clay. The method includes eliminating from the contaminated material contaminating materials not bound to the clay, mixing the contaminated raw material, free of unbound contaminating materials, with water, separating from the mixture clay suspended in water and residues of raw material depleted in clay, and separately recovering clay and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Inventor: Albert Fontaine