ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,042, issued on May 13, was assigned to BIG BELLY SOLAR LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Hands free storage receptacle" was invented by Jeffrey T. Satwicz (Waltham, Mass.), Kevin Menice (Medfield, Mass.), David J. Skocypec (Stoughton, Mass.), Thomas Olsen (Natick, Mass.), Brian Phillips (Sherborn, Mass.) and Michael E. Feldman (Framingham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle as well as a hopper. A method of using the storage receptacle can include receiving a force on a hopper handle of a hopper of a storage receptacle, the hopper having a cable connection poi...