US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Sept. 15 for "Refuse collection drone" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,251, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Refuse collection drone" 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 drone includes a chassis, tractive elements rotatably coupled with and supporting the chassis, a propulsion system including a battery and an electric motor configured to consume electrical energy from the battery, and a bin removably coupled with the chassis and including a cover. The propulsion system is configured to drive one or more of the tractive elem...