ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,128, issued on April 14.
"Street curb cleaning system" was invented by Carlos Martinez (Corpus Christi, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A street curb cleaning system for facilitating collecting trash from a street curb includes a tractor. A housing encloses a chamber space and includes a bottom wall, a back wall, a side wall, and a top wall. The bottom wall, the side wall, and the top wall form a front edge of the housing, wherein the front edge defines an opening into the chamber space. A mount attaches the housing to the tractor. A bottom wedge extends outwardly from a bottom section of the front edge. The bottom wedge separa...