ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,767, issued on April 29, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Shovel" was invented by Chunnan Wu (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower-part traveling body; an upper-part swing body rotatably provided above the lower-part traveling body; an object detecting device provided in the upper-part swing body; a controller as a control device provided in the upper-part swing body; and at least one driven body configured to be operated by an actuator. The object detecting device is configured to detect another shovel in a detection space set around the shovel. The controller is configured ...