US Patent Issued to Google on July 15 for "Validation of objects" (Washington, South Carolina, California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,244, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Validation of objects" was invented by Samuel Gardner Garrett (Seattle), Peter Sarossy (Mableton, Ga.), Rachel Soukup (Seattle), Avinash Panga (Woodinville, Wash.), Yong Hoon Kim (Belmont, Calif.), Addison Hammer (Charleston, S.C.) and Jingwen Mao (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for validating objects within a container, such that a validation system confirms that objects within a container are valid i.e., ready to be shipped from a data center for reuse or ready to be destroyed. The validation system can be used to identi...