US Patent Issued to THE COCA-COLA on April 8 for "Systems and methods for tracking refillable packages filled at a bottling facility" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,646, issued on April 8, was assigned to THE COCA-COLA COMPANY (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for tracking refillable packages filled at a bottling facility" was invented by Matthew William Baker (Marietta, Ga.), Kuil Park (Atlanta) and Joshua Casey Schwarber (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a bottling facility for filling a refillable package. The bottling facility may include a filler for filling the refillable package, a radio frequency identification tag positioned on the refillable package, a radio frequency identification reader, and a data processing system in communication with the...