ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,637, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Motor grader and representation control method" was invented by Yuki Okamune (Tokyo), Hirohito Hagiwara (Tokyo), Kengo Yamamoto (Tokyo), Hiroki Nagasaki (Tokyo) and Takeshi Kamimae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor grader includes a front frame, a rear frame, an actuator that pivots the front frame with respect to the rear frame, an operator operation apparatus, a display apparatus, and a controller. The controller causes the display apparatus to show any one of an image showing a state of pivot and an image different from the image showing the state of pivot, b...