ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,236, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Work machine" was invented by Yousuke Yamanobe (Ushiku, Japan), Hidenobu Tsukada (Ushiku, Japan), Yuuki Gotou (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Atsushi Kanda (Tsukuba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes: a work device; an operation device operating the work device; a first controller controlling operation of the work device on the basis of operation of the operation device; and a second controller determining that an auto idle condition is satisfied and performing auto idle control that decreases an engine revolution speed to an i...