US Patent Issued to Orange Recycling on Nov. 25 for "Recyclable detection and identification system for recycling collection vehicles" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,656, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Orange Recycling Inc. (Orinda, Calif.).

"Recyclable detection and identification system for recycling collection vehicles" was invented by David Husen (Austin, Texas), Daniel Wintz (San Francisco), Miles Price (Canyon, Calif.), Alex Woolf (Orinda, Calif.) and Jesse Tootell (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recyclable identification systems and methods are disclosed. A recyclable identification system, for example, may include a collection vehicle having a container and an imaging system disposed on the collection vehicle and positioned on the collection vehicle to image objects as t...