ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,303, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Work machines" was invented by Sasuga Kitai (Tokyo), Mikio Bando (Tokyo), Takehito Ogata (Tokyo) and Shinichi Uotsu (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement sensor that measures, as three-dimensional point cloud information having a plurality of vertically-adjacent layers, a surface position of an object around the work machine; and an object sensor that senses an object around the work machine on a basis of information from the measurement sensor are included, and the object sensor acquires three-dimensional point cloud info...