US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on July 29 for "Shovel and shovel diagnostic system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,879, issued on July 29, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel and shovel diagnostic system" was invented by Taiga Nanbu (Chiba, Japan), Soutarou Otoh (Chiba, Japan) and Hiroyuki Tsukamoto (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, an engine mounted on the upper turning body, a hydraulic pump mounted on the upper turning body and configured to be driven by the engine, and processing circuitry configured to collect diagnostic data of the shovel, in response to detecting that the engine is d...