US Patent Issued to JIANGSU XCMG CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 5 for "Modular excavator" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,218, issued on May 5, was assigned to JIANGSU XCMG CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD. (Xuzhou, China).

"Modular excavator" was invented by Zhanrui Sun (Xuzhou, China), Yong Li (Xuzhou, China) and Yong Zhang (Xuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a modular excavator, including a plurality of assembly modules that are detachably connected, the plurality of assembly modules including: a frame turntable base module; a track beam assembly module connected to the frame turntable base module; a track module connected to the track beam assembly module; a slewing drive module connected to the f...