ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,225, issued on June 10, was assigned to Prairie Robotics Inc..
"Waste auditing system using service vehicles" was invented by Sam Philip Dietrich (Regina, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waste management system audits waste collected by a service vehicle from clients. The system has a camera capturing images of waste collected in the collection hopper of the service vehicle. A controller compares the waste images to event criteria to determine if a service event has occurred and then associates a client with the service event, in which the client is identified by an accompanying identification system. The controller then iden...