US Patent Issued to LIXO on Sept. 29 for "Waste collection management apparatus and method, a waste collection vehicle, and a method for analyzing waste" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,097, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to LIXO (Paris).

"Waste collection management apparatus and method, a waste collection vehicle, and a method for analyzing waste" was invented by Etienne Abadie (Paris), Marc Bernard (Paris), Megan Fillion (Paris), Tom Francois (Paris), Alexandre Kempf (Paris), Olivier Large (Paris), Loic Macherel (Paris) and Paul Pister (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using a waste management apparatus mounted on a waste collection vehicle, images of the waste dumped into a hopper are acquired. Objects are detected and a class is assigned to each object in a predefined classification e.g. using an AI modu...