US Patent Issued to Asahi Kasei on Dec. 23 for "Authentication method, authentication system, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,412, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Asahi Kasei K.K. (Tokyo).

"Authentication method, authentication system, and program" was invented by Youichiroh Ide (Tokyo), Hideaki Yonekubo (Tokyo), Takahiro Saito (Tokyo), Naoki Horie (Tokyo) and Takeshi Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new technology to assist the recycling of resources is provided. Provided is an authentication method for a recycled product performed by a computer system, the authentication method including: a first acquisition step of acquiring information on a receiving amount of a recycled resin in a manufacturing entity of a resin product; a second acquis...