ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,851, issued on July 1, was assigned to Komatsu Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Display control device and display method" was invented by Qi Ding (Tokyo) and Masanori Minagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A captured image acquisition unit acquires a captured image showing work equipment from a camera provided at a work machine. A blade edge shadow generation unit generates a blade edge shadow obtained by projecting a blade edge of the work equipment on a projection surface toward a vertical direction. A display image generation unit generates a display image obtained by superimposing the captured image, the blade edge shadow, a left line, and...