ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,958, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Shovel and construction system" was invented by Takeya Izumikawa (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper turning body, and a controller provided to the upper turning body. The controller is configured to set a predetermined condition on movement of the lower traveling body, and provide information on stopping the movement of the lower traveling body upon determining that the predetermined conditi...