US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on May 12 for "Shovel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,519, issued on May 12, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel" was invented by Junichi Okada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiji Honda (Kanagawa, 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 including a boom attached to the upper turning body, an arm attached to an end of the boom, and an end attachment attached to an end of the arm, wherein a motion of the arm or the end attachment is corrected according to a stability of a body of the shovel."

The patent was filed on March 25, 2021, under Application ...