ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,648, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Shovel and shovel management apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Sano (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling structure, an upper swing structure swingably mounted on the lower traveling structure, an attachment attached to the upper swing structure and including a bucket, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to set a shape parameter of the bucket according to a bucket shape obtained in advance. The bucket shape represents the shape of the bucket."
The patent was filed on Sept. 22, 2021...