US Patent Issued to WM Intellectual Property Holdings on July 8 for "Apparatus and method for asset tracking for metal waste and recycling containers" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,292, issued on July 8, was assigned to WM Intellectual Property Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Apparatus and method for asset tracking for metal waste and recycling containers" was invented by Vu Nguyen (Houston) and Brian Hertz (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for asset tracking for metal waste and recycling containers. A low-cost GPS location asset tracker can be provided for tracking the whereabouts of metal waste and recycling containers. The asset tracker can include a housing attachable to the metal waste container, a primary control board, an accelerometer, one or more battery packs, and a trac...