ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,979, issued on July 29, was assigned to Schwing GmbH (Herne, Germany).

"Remote control system for a construction machine and method for controlling a construction machine" was invented by Johannes Henikl (Dorsten, Germany) and Mykola Oleksyuk (Hattingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control system includes a mobile terminal configured to control a construction machine in a first operating mode using one or more control elements of the mobile terminal and to control at least one imaging device in a second operating mode using the one or more control elements of the mobile terminal. The at least one imaging device is...