US Patent Issued to c-trace on July 1 for "Waste disposal system and method for detecting impurities in waste containers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,167, issued on July 1, was assigned to c-trace GmbH (Bielefield, Germany).

"Waste disposal system and method for detecting impurities in waste containers" was invented by Cedric Markworth (Bielefeld, Germany) and Stephan Vogt (Leopoldshohe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste disposal system for contaminant detection in waste containers, includes a disposal vehicle having a waste collection room, an emptying device, adapted to receive a waste container in a receiving position and move it to an emptying position in which the contents of the waste container are emptied into the waste collection room, and a camera system, adap...