Patent ID: 9448968
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: B07C,G06F

Claim Text:
1. An automated small object sorting system comprising: an object tray cart docking station structured and operable to receive and engage an object tray cart to dock the object tray cart within the object tray cart docking station; an automated tray removal and positioning subsystem structured and operable to: an automated collection assembly positioning subsystem structured and operable to selectively position a collection assembly such that the selected one or more small objects extracted from the removed object tray can be deposited into selected one or more of a plurality of object receptacles of the collection assembly; an automated object extraction subsystem structured and operable to extract the selected one or more small objects from the object tray and deposit each extracted small object into the selected one or more object receptacles; and an object extraction verification assembly structured and operable to verify that the object extraction subsystem extracted each of the selected small objects from the object tray; wherein the object tray cart docking station comprises a receiving assembly structured and operable to locate and retain the object tray cart in a specific position relative to the tray removal and positioning subsystem; wherein the object tray cart docking station further comprises a cart information tag reader structured and operable to read a cart information tag affixed to the object tray cart, the cart information tag including information listing each of one or more object trays stored in the object tray cart.