查看更多>>摘要:By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – According to news reporting originatin g from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent by the inventors De v, Bodhayan (Sturbridge, MA, US), Kamble, Atish P. (Acton, MA, US), Swaroop, Pre m (Lexington, MA, US), filed on March 23, 2023, was published online on Septembe r 3, 2024. The assignee for this patent, patent number 12080040, is The Heil Co. (Chattanoo ga, Tennessee, United States). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Identification of overfilled containers is useful in many ind ustries. For example, in the refuse industry, refuse container overages, contain er damage, and misplacement, may pose complications for refuse collection and cu stomer billing. A refuse collection company may operate a fleet of refuse collec tion vehicles that operate regularly to collect refuse from the containers of va rious customers and transport the refuse to a processing site. An overage can oc cur, for example, when a container is filled above its rim, e.g., causing the li d to not close completely. If a customer consistently overfills their container( s), creating an overage, the refuse collection company may lose revenue by colle cting more refuse than the company agreed to collect from the customer. Moreover , an overfilled container may lead to operational problems in the mechanism(s) t hat empty the container into the vehicle. Contracts between the company and its customers are priced, and the containers are sized, based on an expected amount of refuse to be collected. Accordingly, a refuse collection company typically ch arges an overage fee for an overfilled container.”