ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,869, issued on March 18, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine" was invented by Akira Kanazawa (Tokyo), Hidekazu Moriki (Tokyo), Shinya Imura (Tsuchiura, Japan), Shiho Izumi (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Takaaki Chiba (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a work machine that enables enhancement of shaping accuracy near a boundary line between two adjacent target surfaces. A controller 10 extracts, from among a plurality of target surfaces, a second target surface S2 that is a target surface adjacent to a first target surface S1, calculates a boundary line L2 between the first t...