US Patent Issued to The Heil on July 22 for "Automatic control of a refuse front end loader" (Alabama, California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,534, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Heil Co. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Automatic control of a refuse front end loader" was invented by Ralph Waldo Whitfield Jr. (Rainbow City, Ala.), Brian Huston Ham (Huntsville, Ala.), John M. Curotto (Sonoma, Calif.), Andrew Blaine Cooper (Signal Mountain, Tenn.) and Brian T. Parker (Signal Mountain, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic control system for a refuse vehicle includes a mode select switch disposed within the vehicle that generates a mode select signal based on input from an operator of the vehicle, a control mechanism disposed within the vehicle that operates in respo...