US Patent Issued to Con-Tech Manufacturing on Nov. 11 for "Robust grabber arm for refuse collection vehicle" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,642, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Con-Tech Manufacturing Inc. (Dodge Center, Minn.).

"Robust grabber arm for refuse collection vehicle" was invented by Grant McNeilus (Dodge Center, Minn.), Garwin McNeilus (Dodge Center, Minn.) and Brian Meldahl (Dodge Center, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grabber arm mechanism for use as part of a refuse collection vehicle has a mismatched pair of grabber fingers which are both arcuate, with a first grabber finger being longer than a second grabber finger. Due to the mismatch in size in the first grabber finger and the second grabber finger, the grabber mechanism is capable of handlin...