US Patent Issued to Hummingbird Solutions on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for calculating the mass of material in an excavating machine bucket" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,020, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hummingbird Solutions Inc. (North Vancouver, Canada).

"Method and system for calculating the mass of material in an excavating machine bucket" was invented by Charles Constancon (North Vancouver, Canada) and Ali Yaghini (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for calculating the mass of material in an excavating machine bucket including receiving, by a controller, data for determining the distance between at least one sensor mounted on the excavating machine and a target positioned on an arm of the excavating machine. Moreover,...