ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,882, issued on July 29, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Operation instruction system" was invented by Yusuke Kamimura (Hiroshima, Japan), Daisuke Noda (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yoichiro Yamazaki (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point generating unit of a mobile terminal generates teaching point information associating a teaching position that teaches the work machine a position of the attachment in a series of movements to be performed by the work machine with orientation information indicating a target orientation at the teaching position, based on a slewing angle of an upp...