US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 14 for "Peripheral monitoring system for work machine and work machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,703, issued on July 14, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Peripheral monitoring system for work machine and work machine" was invented by Yuki Ohira (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral monitoring system for a work machine includes a position measurement device that measures a position of an object, a position identifying member provided for the work machine, an acquisition unit that acquires position information of the position identifying member with the position measurement device, and an identifying unit that identifies a position of the position measurement device based on the posit...