US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on June 24 for "Shovel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,601, issued on June 24, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel" was invented by Chunnan Wu (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Sano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiyasu Itsuji (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazunori Hiranuma (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, and a hardware processor provided on the upper swing structure. The hardware processor is configured to recognize the position of a dump truck and create a target trajectory for a dumping operation."

The pate...