ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,131, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Work machine" was invented by Yusuke Suzuki (Tsukuba, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Kasumigaura, Japan), Yasuhiko Kanari (Kasumigaura, Japan), Hiroshi Sakamoto (Kashiwa, Japan), Teruki Igarashi (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Akihiro Narazaki (Tsukuba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention of the present application intends to provide a work machine that can improve the work performance by keeping the work state of work equipment conforming to the intention of an operator in machine control for causing the work equipment to follow an excavation ...