ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,362, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to EVOLUTIVE LABS Co. LTD. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Waste collection apparatus" was invented by Wei-Chun Liu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Ching-Fu Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Cheng-Che Ho (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste collection apparatus for collecting waste in water includes a floating device and a waste collection device coupled to the floating device. The floating device includes a plurality of floating units. The waste collection device is coupled to the floating device. Each of the floating units includes a base and a pillar connected to the base, and the density of...