ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,284, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Construction machine" was invented by Masashi Danguchi (Fukuoka, Japan) and Shogo Suzuki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This hydraulic excavator serves as a construction machine and is equipped with: a monitoring unit for monitoring the periphery around the construction machine; and a control unit for controlling the execution of a construction machine operation restriction based on the monitoring results of the monitoring unit according to the operating mode of the construction machine. The control unit executes the operation restriction ...