ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,132, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to JIANGSU XCMG CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Backhoe loader with 360deg platform for efficient digging" was invented by Yanbo Geng (Jiangsu, China), Xiaocheng Liu (Jiangsu, China) and Weiwei Jin (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The backhoe loader includes: a vehicle body, including a first vehicle body and a second vehicle body which are connected sequentially; a loading device, arranged on the first vehicle body; a control platform, arranged on the second vehicle body and configured to rotate by 360deg relative to the second vehicle body; a cab...