US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on July 14 for "Refuse vehicle with assisted lift assembly" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,641, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Refuse vehicle with assisted lift assembly" was invented by Ryan Wolf (Oshkosh, Wis.), Christopher Rukas (Oshkosh, Wis.), Chris Mills (Oshkosh, Wis.), Greg Steffens (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Eric Hutchinson (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse vehicle includes a chassis, a series of tractive elements coupled to the chassis, a refuse compartment coupled to the chassis, a lift arm rotatably coupled to the chassis and configured to engage a refuse container, a lift arm actuator coupled to the chassis and configured to move the lift arm relative to the ch...