US Patent Issued to TADANO, THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY on March 4 for "Ground surface estimation method, measurement region display system, and crane" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,758, issued on March 4, was assigned to TADANO LTD. (Kagawa, Japan) and THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Ground surface estimation method, measurement region display system, and crane" was invented by Iwao Ishikawa (Kagawa, Japan), Takayuki Kosaka (Kagawa, Japan), Satoshi Kubota (Osaka, Japan), Shigenori Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Kenji Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Yuhei Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Masaya Nakahara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground surface estimation method includes: a continuous region recognizing step for recognizing, when a difference in altitude value between a representative p...