ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,092, issued on June 3, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"System for setting target trajectory of attachment" was invented by Daisuke Noda (Hiroshima, Japan), Koji Yamashita (Hiroshima, Japan) and Masaki Akiyama (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for setting a target trajectory of an attachment allows for an efficient operation of the attachment. The system includes a target trajectory setting unit which sets a target trajectory of a specific part of an attachment between a target start point at which an operation for moving the attachment holding a load extracted from a...