US Patent Issued to ecoATM on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for recycling consumer electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,745, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ecoATM LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for recycling consumer electronic devices" was invented by John Beane (San Diego) and Babak Forutanpour (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and associated methods for recycling and performing other processes with consumer electronic devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technology includes systems and methods for enabling, e.g., a retailer to identify and evaluate a used or pre-owned consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, laptop, etc. to facilitate purchasing the device from the consumer. In some e...