ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,700, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Reprocessing of a replaceable supply component" was invented by Kyle Michel (Vancouver, Wash.), Laurent Pizot (Vancouver, Wash.), Kyle Mannari (Vancouver, Wash.), Elijah Houle (Vancouver, Wash.), Honee L Mesa (Boise, Idaho), Teresa M O'Keeffe (Boise, Idaho), Lee Jackson (Vancouver, Wash.), Gabriel Scott McDaniel (Boise, Idaho), Steven T Castle (Corvallis, Ore.), Paul L Jeran (Boise, Idaho) and David B Novak (Corvallis, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reprocessing of a replaceable supply component may include receiving from an encoding dev...