ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,313, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Shovel and shovel control device" 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 mounted on the upper turning body; and a control device including a memory storing a program and a processor configured to execute a process including automatically decelerating or stopping turning of the upper turning body when interference between the attachment and a control reference surface is predicted wh...