US Patent Issued to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on July 28 for "Work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,685, issued on July 28, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine" was invented by Hiroki Ishii (Tsuchiura, Japan), Shinya Imura (Toride, Japan), Shinjiro Yamamoto (Ami-Machi, Japan) and Koji Shiwaku (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes: a work device; a posture sensor that senses posture information of the work device; a hydraulic actuator that drives the work device; and a controller configured to generate operation plan information on the basis of task information necessary for automatic control, the task information being obtained from an external system, an...