ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,067, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).
"Refuse vehicle dump verification system and apparatus" was invented by Ricardo Castano Salinas (Fort Payne, Ala.), Brian Huston Ham (Huntsville, Ala.), Henry Michael Hund Jr. (Cedar Bluff, Ala.) and John Forrest Smith (Fort Payne, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for positively identifying that a dump event of a refuse container has occurred into a refuse hopper of a refuse vehicle are provided. When used with route software, alerts may be generated if a specific refuse container is missed or if an unexpected dump event occurs during the ...