US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Oct. 7 for "Joystick control system for refuse vehicles" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,623, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Joystick control system for refuse vehicles" was invented by Cody D. Clifton (Mapleton, Minn.), Vincent Hoover (Byron, Minn.), Joshua Rocholl (Rochester, Minn.) and Joseph Nelson (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joystick control system for a refuse vehicle includes multiple joystick input devices, and a single controller. The single controller is configured to receive a user input from one or more of the multiple joystick input devices. The controller is also configured to identify which of the joystick input devices provide the user input. The contr...