ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,606, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Data transmission system, work machine, and data transmission method for work machine" was invented by Kenji Tokoro (Tokyo), Shinsuke Kiyono (Tokyo), Motohide Sugihara (Tokyo) and Yoshimasa Kawakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a data transmission system for a work machine, including: a processing definition receiving unit configured to receive processing definition information indicating contents of processing of data collected from the work machine; a processing unit configured to determine a data format to be processed, based on the received processi...