ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,389, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD (Tokyo).
"Shovel and construction system" was invented by Takashi Nishi (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, a non-volatile storage device, an information obtaining device that obtains information related to construction, and a controller that controls a sound output device. The controller is configured to determine a dangerous situation based on information obtained by the information obtaining device. The shovel may be configured to display information on a display device rel...