US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Jan. 13 for "Excavator, and excavator operation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,001, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Excavator, and excavator operation system" was invented by Keiji Honda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excavator includes a controller that selects, in a machine control function, a master element and a slave element among a plurality of moving elements constituting an attachment, based on a plurality of information representing details of operations for the plurality of moving elements."

The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/545,179.

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