US Patent Issued to Digimarc on July 1 for "Recycling methods and systems, and related plastic containers" (Oregon, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,840, issued on July 1, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Recycling methods and systems, and related plastic containers" was invented by Ravi K. Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Tomas Filler (Beaverton, Ore.), Vojtech Holub (Lafayette, Colo.), Osama M. Alattar (Tigard, Ore.), Hugh L. Brunk (Portland, Ore.), John D. Lord (West Linn, Ore.) and William Y. Conwell (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plastic item, such as a beverage bottle, conveys two distinct digital watermarks, encoded using two distinct signaling protocols. A first, printed label watermark conveys a retailing payload, including a Global Trade Item ...