ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,752, issued on March 17, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Work machine" was invented by Daisuke Noda (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuhiro Fukuo (Hiroshima, Japan) and Masaki Akiyama (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a work machine capable of loading a transport object at a fixed point of a loading target. A controller is included that automatically performs an operation of discharging soil and sand held by a bucket (33) by driving a boom (31), an arm (32), and the bucket (33) based on a target loading point (P) set above a loading bed (56). After the controller rotates t...