ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,653, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Target path generation system" was invented by Ryunosuke Miyazaki (Hiroshima, Japan), Masaki Akiyama (Hiroshima, Japan), Sho Fujiwara (Hiroshima, Japan) and Takayuki Doi (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target locus of an attachment is determined while a calculation load for generating the target locus of the attachment is suppressed. A controller is configured to set a position of an arm distal end at a time when a contact detector detects contact of a bucket distal end with an excavation object at a start point of ...