ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,981, issued on April 21, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Load discharge system" was invented by Daisuke Noda (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load discharge system for loading work in which a discharge operation of discharging a load in a bucket of a work machine into a container is repeatedly performed. The load discharge system includes a controller for controlling the operation of the work machine, the controller acquires information on an amount of load in the bucket of the work machine and acquires information on a position of the container. The controller calculate...