ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,382, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Work machine" was invented by Hiroaki Amano (Tsuchiura, Japan), Kento Kumagai (Tsuchiura, Japan), Shinji Nishikawa (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Akihiro Narazaki (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of a work machine computes a target velocity of a fluid pressure actuator according to an operation signal from an operation device, computes target thrust or target torque of the fluid pressure actuator on the basis of a driven state of the fluid pressure actuator, and controls a velocity of the fluid pressure actuator by a meter-out...