ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,102, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Operation data support system for industrial machinery" was invented by Keisuke Miura (Osaka, Japan), Ryo Ikeda (Osaka, Japan), Yoshihito Iida (Osaka, Japan) and Kenji Ishihara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation data support system for industrial machinery includes a first memory, a second memory, a communication device, and a control device. The first memory stores, with a ring buffer, operation data regarding a backhoe. The second memory is different from the first memory and stores operation data. The communication device transmits, outw...