US Patent Issued to The Heil on Feb. 10 for "Service verification for a rear loading refuse vehicle" (Alabama, Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,505, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Service verification for a rear loading refuse vehicle" was invented by Brian Huston Ham (Huntsville, Ala.), Kelly Lee Genzer (Magnolia, Texas) and Anthony Romano (Havertown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service verification system for a rear loading refuse vehicle includes a motion sensor on a tailgate of the refuse vehicle. The motion sensor is configured to sense refuse being loaded into a tailgate hopper and to provide a time-stamped triggering signal corresponding to a refuse loading event. An onboard processor is configured to receive the trigge...