ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,006, issued on July 8, was assigned to VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB (Eskilstuna, Sweden).
"Construction equipment" was invented by Hungju Shin (Gyeongsangnam-do, 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 work machine which includes a boom, an arm, and a bucket operated by their respective hydraulic cylinder. The construction equipment also includes a control valve for controlling the hydraulic cylinder; an operation lever for outputting an operation signal corresponding to an operation amount of a driver; a work setting unit for setting a work area; a location i...