US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Jan. 20 for "Work machine activation system and method of activating work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,443, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine activation system and method of activating work machine" was invented by Hayato Matsumoto (Tokyo), Shunsuke Sugimura (Tokyo), Takehiro Shibata (Tokyo), Tomofumi Hokari (Tokyo), Yuichiro Yasuda (Tokyo), Kenji Nozaki (Tokyo), Tomotaka Komatsu (Tokyo), Yosuke Yamagoe (Tokyo) and Ryohei Kikuzawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine activation system includes a management device and an authentication device. The management device stores authentication information usable to authenticate a plurality of operators who are able to operate a work machine...