ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,702, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TADANO LTD. (Kagawa, Japan).
"Crane and transportation destination presentation method" was invented by Shinsuke Kanda (Kagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crane for transporting a load from a transportation origin to a transportation destination, the crane being provided with: an operation function unit provided so as to be turnable; a hook suspended by a wire rope from a distal end part of the operation function unit; an information-reading unit provided to the hook or a member that moves with the hook, the information-reading unit acquiring information relating to a position of th...