MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641061677 A) filed by Knowledge Institute Of Technology, Salem, Tamil Nadu, on May 15, for 'automatic waste sorting apparatus and a method thereof.'
Inventor(s) include Arulkesavan, Sekar; Thiruselvam, Balachandran; Siranjivi, Saravana Kumar; and Haris Kumar, Kesavan.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses an automatic waste sorting apparatus (1) for automatically identifying and segregating waste materials. The apparatus (1) comprises a waste feeding zone (11), a transport rail (27), a sensor (33), a camera (34), a control unit (51), and a rotatable trash bin (42). The sensor (33) detects movement of waste materials on the transport rail (27) and activates the camera (34) to capture images of the waste materials. The control unit (51) processes the captured images to identify category of the waste materials and actuates a drive motor (46). The drive motor (46) rotates the rotatable trash bin (42) having multiple waste collection compartments arranged in a circular configuration to selectively align a corresponding compartment with a discharge path of the transport rail (27) for receiving the identified waste material."
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