US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Sept. 30 for "Shovel, controller for shovel, and method of managing worksite" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,809, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel, controller for shovel, and method of managing worksite" was invented by Takashi Nishi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes processing circuitry configured to predict the motion of the shovel and, in response to predicting that the shovel next performs a predetermined motion, issue an alert indicating that the predetermined motion is to be performed to an area surrounding the shovel before the start of the predetermined motion."

The patent was filed on May 18, 2021, under Application No. 17/323,037.

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