US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Aug. 12 for "Control system, method of controlling work vehicle, and work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,212, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control system, method of controlling work vehicle, and work vehicle" was invented by Takuya Sonoda (Tokyo), Takeshi Kamimae (Tokyo) and Yukihisa Sakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor grader representing a work vehicle includes a steering mechanism and a control unit. The control unit generates a travel path of the motor grader based on a position and an azimuth of the motor grader and a direction of travel of the motor grader and controls the steering mechanism such that the motor grader travels along the generated travel path."

The patent was filed on Jul...