US Patent Issued to Kobelco Construction Machinery on Oct. 7 for "Work assistance system and work assistance composite system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,544, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kobelco Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Work assistance system and work assistance composite system" was invented by Yuki Morita (Hiroshima, Japan), Yusuke Fujiwara (Hiroshima, Japan), Kazuhiro Ueda (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yoichiro Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided which can achieve reliability of a notification about a moving manner of a work machine for a worker regardless of the distance between the work machine and the worker. A sign image M is projected onto a peripheral region of the worker (for example, a ground surface which is present...