US Patent Issued to Hitachi Construction Machinery on Dec. 9 for "Hauling vehicle and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,861, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Hauling vehicle and vehicle control system" was invented by Hiroki Obara (Tokyo), Masaki Kanai (Tokyo), Mikio Bando (Tokyo) and Shinichi Uotsu (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hauling vehicle includes a position detection device, a speed detection device, and a vehicle control device. The vehicle control device acquires a work content of the hauling vehicle corresponding to either hauling or standby based on the position of the hauling vehicle verified with the map information and detected by the position detection device and the...