ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,534, issued on May 20, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Simulation system and simulation method" was invented by Shinya Kano (Tokyo), Noriaki Kojima (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Onishi (Tokyo) and Kyohei Kuroda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a simulation system capable of improving productivity in a construction site. The simulation system includes: a current topography data acquisition unit that acquires current topography data indicating a current topography of a construction site; a design topography data acquisition unit that acquires design topography data indicating a design topography of the construction site; a...