ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,373, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Shovel" was invented by Junichi Morita (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel (100) according to embodiments of the present invention includes a lower travelling body (1), an upper pivot body (3) pivotably mounted to the lower travelling body (1), an excavation attachment (AT) rotatably mounted to the upper pivot body, and a controller (30) provided to the upper pivot body (3). The controller (30) is configured to autonomously perform a compound operation including an operation of the excavation attachment (AT) and a pivot operation. The ...