US Patent Issued to VOLVO AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS on May 5 for "Method and device for controlling excavator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,228, issued on May 5, was assigned to VOLVO AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and device for controlling excavator" was invented by Sungsu Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Jiyun Kim (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an excavator includes obtaining height information indicating a height according to a plane coordinate of a target object; obtaining, based on the height information, bend information of the target object according to a plurality of orientation angles which are angles between a reference direction and orientations direction of a bucket; determining, based...