US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Sept. 30 for "Refuse vehicle pressure feedback loop for pump control" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,222, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Refuse vehicle pressure feedback loop for pump control" was invented by Ross Turner (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Joseph Nelson (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refuse vehicle can include a controller in communication with a hydraulic system of the refuse vehicle. The controller can control the hydraulic system to supply fluid power to a packer actuator of the refuse vehicle such that the packer actuator moves a packer of the refuse vehicle, determine that one or more other vehicle functions are active, and reduce the fluid power supplied to the packer act...