ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,914, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Detecting objects near the cart" was invented by Leo Van Kampen (Conestogo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse vehicle can include a first camera, a second camera, and one or more processing circuits. The one or more processing circuits can communicate with the first camera and the second camera. The one or more processing circuits can receive first data associated with a collection site proximate to the refuse vehicle, detect a first object and a second object based on the first data, generate one or more bounding boxes to establish a dimension for t...