ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,890, issued on May 12, was assigned to TADANO LTD. (Kagawa, Japan).

"Loading type truck crane" was invented by Tomokazu Goto (Kagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a loading type truck crane that includes an outrigger device including a right outrigger and a left outrigger that are mounted on a vehicle and are capable of extending and retracting in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle, and a crane device that includes a turnable boom and is mounted on the vehicle. A control device that is provided in the truck crane calculates a critical working radius of the crane device on a basis of a ground-contact rea...