US Patent Issued to FUNAI SERVICE on Jan. 27 for "System and method for reverse logistics operations" (Ohio, New York, Indiana, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,493, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUNAI SERVICE Corp. (Groveport, Ohio).

"System and method for reverse logistics operations" was invented by Yoshihiro Sasaki (Hilliard, Ohio), Ibrahim M. Sardar (Avon, Ind.), Fumiyo Hines (Staten Island, N.Y.), Nobuyuki Shiroma (Columbus, Ohio), Darren Lee Bowen (Kingston, Ohio), Sumire Kawana (Dublin, Ohio) and Kyungnim Chen (Chino Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for securely managing reverse logistics information of returned products includes the steps of receiving a plurality of Return Merchandise Authorizations (RMAs) each with returned product information f...