US Patent Issued to Hitachi Construction Machinery on June 10 for "On-site monitoring apparatus and on-site monitoring system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,983, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"On-site monitoring apparatus and on-site monitoring system" was invented by Yoshiyuki Tsuchie (Tokyo), Shinya Imura (Tokyo) and Hidekazu Moriki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an on-site monitoring apparatus and an on-site monitoring system that can appropriately set an area to be subjected to on-site monitoring. The on-site monitoring apparatus includes warning devices 104 and 309 that output a warning, peripheral object detection devices 102 and 307 that detect a position of a partition object 512, work area input devices 101...