ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,757, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control system for work machine" was invented by Hidekazu Moriki (Mito, Japan), Kazuya Sekine (Mito, Japan) and Yoshiaki Tsutsumi (Ishioka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system 200 for a work machine includes a communication interface 18 that acquires a series of work instructions to a work machine 1 and an action control section 110 that controls an action of the work machine 1 so as to perform tasks included in the work instructions acquired by the communication interface 18. When the tasks included in the work instructions in...