ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,755, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine management 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: "A work machine management system includes a terrain profile data generating system configured to generate terrain profile data representing a finished shape produced by a work device of a work machine, on the basis of a sensing result of a posture sensor that senses a posture of the work machine. The terrain profile data generating system computes a trajectory of the work device on the basis of the pos...