ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,096, issued on June 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel and shovel assist system" was invented by Ryota Kurosawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to obtain environmental information around the shovel, and perform determination related to an object around the shovel based on the obtained environmental information, by using a learned model on which machine learning has been performed. The learned model is updated to an additionally learned model on which additional learning has been perfo...