ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,985, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system micro manufacturing center for reuse and recycling factoring carbon footprint" was invented by John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas), Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas) and Katie Elizabeth Green (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information handling systems are transported to a selected of plural micro manufacturing centers for harvesting of component modules to reuse in remanufactured information handling systems through an automated process that uses a robotic arm to harvest the component modules and rebuild the ...