Because the governor appoints a majority of its board, the rubbish-collection body has long been thought of in Hartford as a key component of his political machine.
The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.
This machine shatters tiny amounts of a sample into its component atoms, ionises those atoms in order to give them an electric charge, and then uses that charge to attract the atoms along a tube.
Both consisted of two parts, a client component running on the Cisco 819 router designed to handle machine to machine (M2M) communications and server based software which handles various tasks, such as data analytics.
How easy is it to repair for example: it is clearly greener to repair one component or replace it in the case of failure rather than insist on an entirely new machine.