ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,303, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Komatsu Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Loading machine control device, loading machine control method, and control system" was invented by Kazuhiro Hatake (Tokyo) and Yusuke Saigo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movement control unit, during automated control, performs the processes below. The movement control unit outputs an operation signal for swinging a swinging body until a portion of the swinging body to which work equipment is attached faces a goal position. The movement control unit outputs an operation signal for upwardly actuating a first link component, which is one of multiple link compon...