US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on March 25 for "Shovel and remote operation support apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,727, issued on March 25, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel and remote operation support apparatus" was invented by Yuta Sugiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a plurality of driven elements, a plurality of actuators configured to drive the plurality of driven elements, and a hardware processor configured to, in response to detecting that two or more actuators of the plurality of actuators are synchronously moved, prohibit a motion of another actuator of the plurality of actuators that is different from the two or more actuators of the plurality of actuators."

The patent was fi...