US Patent Issued to Komatsu Forest on Dec. 2 for "Forestry system" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,494, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Komatsu Forest AB (Umea, Sweden).

"Forestry system" was invented by Erik Nilsson (Obbola, Sweden) and Peter Assarsson (Umea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a forestry system (1). The forestry system comprises a harvester (10) comprising an electrical energy generator, and a plurality of self-driving shuttles (20a-f) for transporting logs harvested by the harvester. Each shuttle comprises an electrical energy storage and at least one electrical motor powered by the electrical energy storage. The electrical energy storage of said shuttle is configured to be coupled ...