ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,868, issued on March 18, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Shovel" was invented by Keiichi Tsuji (Chiba, Japan), Takaaki Morimoto (Chiba, Japan) and Atsushi Nakayama (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling body including a pair of crawlers; an upper turning body; an image capturing device; an obtaining device that obtains information related to a situation around the shovel; a detecting part that detects a predetermined object around the shovel; and a display device that displays a peripheral image representing the situation around the shovel. A detection area...