ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,604, issued on April 14, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Information acquisition system" was invented by Yoshio Sasaoka (Tokyo), Satoshi Okada (Tokyo) and Teppei Maedo (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information acquisition system includes a first input acquisition unit that acquires masses of the attachment and the suspended cargo as first input, a second input acquisition unit that acquires information about a posture of the attachment as second input, a position estimation unit that estimates the position of at least one of the attachment and the suspended cargo, based ...