US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 1 for "Excavator and management apparatus for excavator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,022, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Excavator and management apparatus for excavator" was invented by Masato Koga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excavator includes a comparing part configured to compare first image data obtained by capturing, at a first timing, a bucket in a specified orientation, with second image data obtained by capturing, at a second timing different from the first timing, the bucket in the specified orientation; and an output part configured to output a comparison result obtained by the comparing part."

The patent was filed on March 15, 2022, under ...