ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,855, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Remote control system for construction machine" was invented by Hitoshi Sasaki (Hiroshima, Japan), Seiji Saiki (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yoichiro Yamazaki (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control system 1 comprises a server 50 configured to acquire, for each of a plurality of construction machines 10, information indicating whether a predetermined event related to a machine control request timing which is a timing at which control of each of the plurality of construction machines 10 is to be started has occurred,...