US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Sept. 1 for "Simplified alignment indicator" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,323, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Simplified alignment indicator" was invented by Leo Van Kampen (Conestogo, Canada), Vince Schad (Oshkosh, Wis.), Eric Codega (Oshkosh, Wis.), Jill King (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Brian Brost (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse vehicle can include a camera and one or more processing circuits. The one or more processing circuits can detect a movement of the refuse vehicle, receive image data that includes a waste receptacle, determine a position of the waste receptacle relative to the refuse vehicle based on the image data, and generate a user interface...