ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,886, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Higashi, Japan) and KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Control device for construction machine and construction machine equipped with same" was invented by Masatoshi Kozui (Hiroshima, Japan), Toru Yamamoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Hideo Yoshihara (Hiroshima, Japan) and Kazushige Koiwai (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller includes a drive part, a posture information acquisition part, and a control part, the control part calculates a gravity center velocity of a working device on the basis of posture information about the workin...