US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Feb. 3 for "Shovel and method of controlling shovel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,449, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel and method of controlling shovel" was invented by Kiminori Sano (Chiba, Japan) and Ryuji Shiratani (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling structure, an upper swing structure swingably mounted on the lower traveling structure, an engine mounted on the upper swing structure, a hydraulic pump configured to be driven by the engine, and processing circuitry configured to determine a command value by energy saving control and to control a flow rate of hydraulic oil discharged by the hydraulic pump accord...