US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Sept. 16 for "Jobsite operational status detection for concrete trucks" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,295, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Jobsite operational status detection for concrete trucks" was invented by Scott Steckling (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Raymond Ryan (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a chassis, a cab, a drum coupled to the chassis and configured to mix a concrete mixture received therein and selectively dispense the concrete mixture, a chute configured to be operable between a raised position and a lowered position such that, when in the lowered position, the chute is configured to receive the concrete mixture from the drum and provide the concrete mixture...