US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES CONSTRUCTION CRANES on July 1 for "Crane, crane body, and mobile unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,401, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES CONSTRUCTION CRANES Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Crane, crane body, and mobile unit" was invented by Minoru Toida (Tokyo), Kohei Honjo (Aichi, Japan) and Katuaki Kamashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a crane including a crane body, and a mobile unit moving around the crane body. The crane body includes a power supply unit, and includes a power supply path member connected to the mobile unit and supplying power to the mobile unit from the power supply unit."

The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/511,105.

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