US Patent Issued to HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on June 30 for "Bucket information acquisition device and construction machine provided with same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,954, issued on June 30, was assigned to HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan) and KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Bucket information acquisition device and construction machine provided with same" was invented by Ryota Hashimoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Yasuhiko Shimazu (Hiroshima, Japan), Takunori Yamaguchi (Hiroshima, Japan) and Sho Okimoto (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bucket information acquisition device for acquiring information regarding the shape of a bucket that rotates about a rotational center axis along a predetermined moving plane in a construction machine includes: ...