公开(公告)号：US20230289747A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-14

申请号：US18017772

申请日：2021-07-23

Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY

Inventor： Joshua Casey SCHWARBER ,  Allen LINEBERRY ,  Benjamin John KINGSTON ,  David CARREWYN ,  Matthew BAKER ,  Axel KLING ,  Patrick ETESSE

IPC: G06Q10/30 ,  G06Q30/0207 ,  G06K19/06 ,  G06K19/07

CPC classification number: G06Q10/30 ,  G06Q30/0215 ,  G06K19/06009 ,  G06K19/0723 ,  G06K7/10435

Abstract: A vessel is assigned a unique vessel identifier (620). Before or after the vessel is filled, the vessel identifier is encoded into a machine-readable code that is printed or etched onto the vessel (630; 640). The code may have the property that it can be quickly read by a scanner from a variety of different angles and vessel orientations. When the vessel is sold to a user, the user may scan the machine-readable code (or a different code placed on a label associated with the vessel) using a smartphone (710), and the unique vessel identifier is linked to a user account associated with the user (740). Later, when the user places the empty vessel in the recycling stream, a scanner or camera placed in the recycling facility scans or captures the machine-readable code on the vessel and extracts the vessel identifier from the code (810; 820).