ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,229, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for generating excavation trajectory, system, and excavation trajectory generation apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Yoshimoto (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to generate a trajectory that enables efficient excavation of an object, an excavation trajectory generation apparatus 4 includes: an excavation point obtaining section 110 configured to obtain information related to an excavation point at which an object 2 is to be excavated; a parameter calculation section 120 configured to calculate a parameter to be used for genera...