US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Dec. 23 for "Molecular encoding of recycling information" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,808, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Molecular encoding of recycling information" was invented by Yuan-Jyue Chen (Seattle), Bichlien Hoang Nguyen (Seattle), Jake Allen Smith (Seattle), Karin Strauss (Seattle) and Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recycling information is associated with objects through the use of molecular tags. The recycling information may describe the type of material that the object is made from as well as provide instructions for recycling. The molecular tags may be polynucleotides or other types of molecules including inorgan...