US Patent Issued to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on July 7 for "Work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,304, issued on July 7, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine" was invented by Takaaki Chiba (Tsuchiura, Japan), Masamichi Ito (Toride, Japan), Koji Shiwaku (Tsuchiura, Japan), Shinya Kasai (Kashiwa, Japan) and Morizo Henmi (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a work machine including a controller configured to perform area restriction control for preventing a vehicle body from deviating from a work area set in a construction area. In this work machine, it is possible to easily set an area for which operation of the work machine is to be restricted in an actual space to a...