ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,254, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ecoATM LLC (San Diego).

"Application for device evaluation and other processes associated with device recycling" was invented by Mark Vincent Bowles (San Diego), Randal Erman (San Diego), Jarrod Hammes (San Diego), Jeffrey Ploetner (San Diego), John Silva (San Diego) and Rick Segil (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software application systems and associated methods for recycling, purchasing, and/or performing other processes with mobile phones, tablet computers, laptop computers, and/or other electronic devices at a kiosk are described herein. In various embodiments, the present technolo...