ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,755, issued on March 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine and operating device for work machine" was invented by Youji Misaki (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes an operating device operable in a first direction and a second direction, a hydraulic pump configured to supply hydraulic oil, a hydraulic actuator, a directional control valve configured to control the hydraulic oil flowing from the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic actuator, and a hardware processor configured to control the directional control valve based on the amount of operation of the operati...