US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on March 25 for "Shovel, and management apparatus and assist device for shovel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,730, issued on March 25, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel, and management apparatus and assist device for shovel" was invented by Yusuke Sano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Chunnan Wu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper turning body, and a control device mounted on the upper turning body and configured to assist an excavating motion with the attachment. The control device is configured to derive a target excavation depth based on the hardness of an excavation targe...