ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,876, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine control system, and work machine" was invented by Kazuya Sekine (Mito, Japan), Hidekazu Moriki (Mito, Japan), Shinya Imura (Toride, Japan) and Yoshiaki Tsutsumi (Ishioka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An action management section 211 acquires a work instruction 230, which includes a final target position, and a current position of a work machine 100 to set a target position, a route planning section 212 generates a target route 240 between the current position and the target position, an operation generation section 213 cause...