ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,327, issued on April 7, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Intrusion detection system" was invented by Yoshiki Munemasa (Hiroshima, Japan), Yukihiro Hoso (Hiroshima, Japan), Sho Fujiwara (Hiroshima, Japan) and Shingun Kyu (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The intrusion detection system includes a GNSS sensor that acquires a position of a work machine at work in a work area, a LiDAR that is disposed outside the work area and acquires point cloud data indicating a distance up to an object located inside or outside the work area, a position calculation unit that calculates positio...