US Patent Issued to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on June 23 for "Work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,796, issued on June 23, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Work machine" was invented by Sho Fujiwara (Hiroshima, Japan), Daisuke Noda (Hiroshima, Japan), Masaki Akiyama (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yuma Morota (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes a lower travelling body, an upper slewing body, an attachment pivotably attached to the upper slewing body, and a control unit that controls each of a slewing action and a pivoting action. The control unit accepts, by teaching, an instruction corresponding to a series of actions including a plurality of action phases an...