ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,221, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CIRCULAR SOLUTIONS INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for reusable assets" was invented by Jason Hawkins (North Vancouver, Canada), Anastasia Kiku (Vancouver, Canada) and Jack Gralla (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asset management system configured for receiving an indication of acceptance of an agreement for borrowing of an asset by a consumer, receiving a consumer identifier corresponding to the consumer from a payment processing system connected to the asset management system, receiving an asset identifier indicative of the asset, obtaining a term for a ret...