ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,017, issued on July 8, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"System and method for calibrating bearing of work machine" was invented by Kentaro Takayama (Tokyo), Toru Kurakane (Tokyo), Eiji Ishibashi (Tokyo), Junji Harada (Tokyo) and Yasuo Wakabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller calculates a first bearing indicative of the bearing of a work machine based on first positional data and second positional data. The controller calculates the position of the work machine. The controller calculates a second bearing indicative of the bearing of the work machine based on a change in the position of the work machine in a ...