US Patent Issued to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Dec. 16 for "Work machine and remote operation system of work" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,758, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine and remote operation system of work" was invented by Hironori Itou (Tsukuba, Japan), Takenori Hiroki (Ami-Machi, Japan), Yasumaro Komiya (Kitaamine-Machi, Japan) and Daiki Machida (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes an object detection device, a photo shooting device, and a controller that controls starting of a prime mover. The controller determines whether or not an object exists around a machine body on the basis of a detection signal arising from detection by the object detection device. The ...