ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,850, issued on July 29, was assigned to WM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC (Houston).

"System and method for customer and/or container discovery based on GPS drive path analysis for a waste / recycling service vehicle" was invented by Sergiy Savchenko (Houston) and Hemachandra Pillutla (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for vehicle drive path analysis for a waste/recycling service vehicle are provided. The system and method can enable identifying of the customers and/or container locations for waste and recycling collection routes using vehicle drive path analysis. Some non-limiting properties that can be ...