US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on July 14 for "Refuse vehicle with a hopper fill sensor" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,642, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Refuse vehicle with a hopper fill sensor" was invented by Greg Steffens (Oshkosh, Wis.), Aaron Fisher (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Amanda Miller (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse vehicle includes a chassis, a cab coupled to the chassis, a refuse compartment supported by the chassis and including a storage volume and a hopper volume, a lift assembly configured to selectively move relative to the refuse compartment, a hopper sensor coupled to a portion of the refuse compartment and configured to measure a refuse height within the hopper volume, and a pa...