US Patent Issued to The Heil on Nov. 3 for "Refuse contamination analysis" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,991, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Refuse contamination analysis" was invented by Anthony Romano (Havertown, Pa.), Michael Dean Geary (Toronto), John Forrest Smith (Fort Payne, Ala.) and Garrett Eckerl (Fort Payne, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for analyzing refuse includes operations of receiving sensor data indicating an operational state of a vehicle body component of a refuse collection vehicle (RCV); analyzing the sensor data to detect a presence of a triggering condition based at least partly on a particular operational state of the vehicle body componen...