ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,801, issued on June 23, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Work machine" was invented by Ryunosuke Miyazaki (Hiroshima, Japan) and Masaki Akiyama (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a work machine operated automatically with reduced discomfort. The work machine includes a controller which sets target trajectory information including target points on a target path of a control target part and an inter-target-point time and makes an upper turning body and a work device perform a target motion of moving the control target part in accordance with the target path informati...