ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,495, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ecube Labs Co. LTD. (Monterey Park, Calif.).
"Method of requesting waste collection services" was invented by Sunbeom Gwon (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for efficiently and automatically requesting waste collection services through the use of mobile communication devices is disclosed. The method utilizes a fill-level sensor or fill-level sensors attached to dumpsters of various sizes. The fill-level sensor is configured to monitor a dumpster's capacity in terms of waste volume. Whenever the volume reaches a predetermined fill-level set by the generator, an automatic ...