ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,915, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Work control method, work control system, and target point setting apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Yoshida (Tokyo) and Tatsuya Yoshimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a related technique, a target point sequence is generated without considering the content of a work of a construction machine, which causes a problem that an actual trajectory of the construction machine is significantly deviated from the target point sequence depending on the content of the work of the construction machine. A work control method according to the present invention includes: a targ...