The Coca-cola Company

Matthew William Baker

Joshua Casey Schwarber

Benjamin John Kingston

Allen Lineberry

Kuil Park

David Carrewyn

Axel Kling

Patrick Etesse

A vessel is assigned a unique vessel identifier (). 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 (). 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 (), and the unique vessel identifier is linked to a user account associated with the user (). 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 ().

Systems and methods for associating vessels with user accounts

The present application provides a bottling facility for filling a refillable package. The bottling facility may include a filler for filling the refillable package, a radio frequency identification tag positioned on the refillable package, a radio frequency identification reader, and a data processing system in communication with the radio frequency identification reader. The radio frequency identification reader identifies the radio frequency identification tag when the refillable package is refilled and the data processing system tracks the number of times the refillable package is refilled.

Systems and methods for tracking refillable packages filled at a bottling facility

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Marietta, GA, United States of America

Matthew William Baker