ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,697, issued on May 20, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Container measurement system" was invented by Shingun Kyu (Hiroshima, Japan), Yukihiro Hoso (Hiroshima, Japan) and Sho Fujiwara (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container measuring system includes a distance image acquiring part and a calculation part. The distance image acquiring part is provided on a working machine for performing a work of loading into a container, and is capable of acquiring a distance image of the container. The calculation part processes the distance image of the container acquired by the distan...