US Patent Issued to Komatsu on July 15 for "Work machine obstacle notification system and work machine obstacle notification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,405, issued on July 15, was assigned to Komatsu Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Work machine obstacle notification system and work machine obstacle notification method" was invented by Taro Eguchi (Tokyo), Koichi Nakazawa (Tokyo), Takeshi Kurihara (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Shitaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstacle determination unit determines whether an obstacle is present in a periphery of the work machine. An action detection unit detects an action of an operator of the work machine. An action determination unit determines whether the detected action is a confirmation action executed at the time of safety confirmation. A notification u...