US Patent Issued to ecoATM on Sept. 1 for "Kiosks for evaluating and purchasing used electronic devices and related technology" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,200, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ecoATM LLC (San Diego).

"Kiosks for evaluating and purchasing used electronic devices and related technology" was invented by Mark Vincent Bowles (San Diego), Thomas L. Tullie (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Eric Rosser (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for a pre-acquisition auction for recycled electronic devices is disclosed herein. A plurality of pre-acquisition purchase prices are established with each of the plurality of pre-acquisition purchase prices established for a recycled electronic device in a predetermined condition, and each of the pre-acquisition purchase prices ...