ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,736, issued on March 25, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"System and method for determining construction plan for work machine at construction site" was invented by Shinya Kanou (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Tadenuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a region data module and a planning module. The region data module acquires excavation region data and embankment region data. The excavation region data indicates positions of a plurality of excavation regions at a work site. The embankment region data indicates positions of a plurality of embankment regions at the work site. The planning module determines, as a const...