ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,455, issued on April 1, was assigned to VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB (Eskilstuna, Sweden).
"Construction equipment" was invented by Hungju Shin (Yangsan-si, South Korea) and Miok Kim (Busan, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction equipment includes: a lower traveling body; an upper rotating body rotatably supported on the lower traveling body; a work machine comprising a boom rotatable with respect to the upper rotating body, an arm rotatable with respect to the boom, a bucket rotatable with respect to the arm, a tilt rotator having a tilting actuator for supporting the bucket to tilt with respect to the arm, an...