ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,715, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine" was invented by Takashi Saegusa (Tokyo), Yuuki Nagaoka (Tsuchiura, Japan), Makoto Saen (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Kazuhiro Shibamori (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes a body, a work implement attached to the body, and a controller that executes a transmission process of transmitting data to an external apparatus installed outside the body. The controller measures a speed of communication with the external apparatus, places a functional restriction on the transmission process when the speed of comm...