ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,002, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Work machine" was invented by Toshiro Ueta (Hiroshima, Japan), Michio Hirayama (Hiroshima, Japan) and Kazuomi Endo (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimative load determination part included in a work machine determines, based on a load acquired by a load acquisition section, an estimative load of an object of a work held by an attachment when an estimative load determinative criterion is satisfied. The estimative load determinative criterion includes at least one of a criterion that a predetermined first reduction...