ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,790, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TADANO LTD. (Kagawa, Japan).

"Control system, and crane" was invented by Yoshimasa Minami (Kagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This control system for controlling an actuator of a crane is provided with a signal processing unit for generating a signal related to a target operating amount of the actuator, a feedback control unit for controlling the actuator on the basis of the difference between the signal relating to the target operating amount, and a fed-back signal relating to the operating amount of the actuator, and a feed-forward control unit which controls the actuator on the b...