ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,775, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Periphery monitoring device for working machine" was invented by Masaki Nagai (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yoichiro Yamazaki (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A periphery monitoring device calculates an expected passage range indicating a range of a locus of a machine body when a lower travelling body travels in an imaging direction of a camera, based on a slewing angle of an upper slewing body and an attitude of an attachment, and superimposes a range image indicating the calculated expected passage range on an image capture...