US Patent Issued to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Aug. 11 for "Work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,961, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine" was invented by Masatoshi Morikawa (Ushiku, Japan), Shinji Nishikawa (Kasumigaura, Japan) and Hiroaki Tanaka (Kasumigaura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main controller of a work machine computes target position information of an entry-prohibited area plane on the basis of operation information of a console switch 11 or a monitor operation device, decides, on the basis of the target position information of the entry-prohibited area plane, whether or not a distance r1 between a target position M of the entry-prohibited area...