US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Oct. 27 for "Refuse collection system" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,156, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Refuse collection system" was invented by Paul Barr (Oshkosh, Wis.), Simon Dean (Oshkosh, Wis.), Jeff Koga (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Zachary Decker (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse collection system includes a refuse collection robot and a refuse depot. The refuse collection robot includes a chassis, a tractive element coupled to the chassis, a motor coupled to the chassis and the tractive element and configured to drive the tractive element to propel the refuse collection robot, a refuse container coupled to the chassis and defining a first stora...