US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 7 for "Shovel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,298, issued on July 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel" was invented by Shoji Hirate (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper swing body swingably mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper swing body, a hydraulic cylinder configured to drive the attachment, and processing circuitry configured to control, in accordance with a state of acceleration of the hydraulic cylinder, movement of the hydraulic cylinder to suppress vibration of the hydraulic cylinder caused by an operation input related to the hydraulic cylinder...