US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on July 29 for "System architecture for refuse vehicle" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,963, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"System architecture for refuse vehicle" was invented by Zhenyi Wei (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Brian Thomas (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse vehicle includes a first controller area network (CAN) bus for body functions of the refuse vehicle. The refuse vehicle also includes multiple controllable elements of a body of the refuse vehicle communicably coupled with the first CAN bus. The refuse vehicle includes a second CAN bus for chassis functions of the refuse vehicle. The refuse vehicle includes multiple controllable elements of a chassis of the ref...