ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,713, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP. (Tokyo).

"Recycling support system" was invented by Tadayoshi Sumiya (Toyota, Japan), Yasunobu Seki (Nisshin, Japan), Koseki Sugiyama (Sunto-gun, Japan), Yuto Kawata (Ichinomiya, Japan), Hiroki Awano (Susono, Japan) and Kosuke Yonekawa (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recycling support system for a production facility performing a plurality of types of recycling processing using marine plants includes a measurement unit configured to measure an amount of remaining energy used to operate the production facility, and a control unit configured t...