ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,469, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MICROMATIC LLC (Berne, Ind.).
"Cart tipper protection device and process" was invented by Charles M. Bivens (Ft Wayne, Ind.), Jarrod Phlipot (Payne, Ohio) and Christopher Shock (New Haven, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The waste truck having a hydraulically operated packer blade in combination with a hydraulically operated rotary cart tipper driven by a rotary actuator. The packer blade resides within a chamber of the truck and is movable therein. The hydraulically driven rotary actuator of the cart tipper rotates the cart tipper from a first down position to a second up position and incl...