ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,390, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Completed-work information processing system" was invented by Naoki Hayakawa (Ushiku, Japan) and Shiho Izumi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention of the present application intends to provide a completed-work information processing system that can generate terrain profile data that is easy to associate with the contents of work and a work area, on the basis of working history data that can be acquired in work execution by a work machine. For this purpose, a computation device computes movement loci of a work device when...