ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,752, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Excavator and work system" was invented by Takeya Izumikawa (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel including a lower-part traveling body, an upper-part swiveling body which is enabled to swivel and is mounted to the lower-part traveling body, an actuator, and a control device that implements a first control process that causes the actuator to act autonomously, and a second control process that causes the actuator to act autonomously, wherein the control device is configured to select one control unit from among a plurality of con...