US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Dec. 30 for "Shovel and control device for shovel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,848, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel and control device for shovel" was invented by Yusuke Sano (Kanagawa, Japan), Keiji Honda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaru Onodera (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper swiveling body mounted to the lower traveling body, attachments including a boom attached to the upper swiveling body, an arm attached to an end of the boom, and a bucket that is an end attachment attached to an end of the arm, and a control device configured to control swiveling of the upper swiveling body and movement of th...