ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,587, issued on July 8, was assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).
"Methods for determining garbage sweeping points in smart cities and internet of things systems thereof" was invented by Zehua Shao (Chengdu, China), Lei Zhang (Chengdu, China), Xiaojun Wei (Chengdu, China), Yong Li (Chengdu, China) and Yongzeng Liang (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for determining a garbage sweeping point in a smart city and an Internet of Things system. The method is implemented by the Internet of Things system. The method includes a user platform, a service platfo...