ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,048, issued on July 22, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Shovel and construction system" was invented by Takeya Izumikawa (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a traveling lower body; a revolving upper body installed on the traveling lower body, to be capable of revolving; an attachment attached to the revolving upper body; an end attachment constituting the attachment; an actuator; and a control device including a memory and a processor configured to cause the actuator to operate autonomously. The control device calculates a control value of the actuator for each of a plural...