ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,227, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).
"Work machine and method for controlling work machine" was invented by Ken Nishihara (Tokyo) and Eiji Ishibashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes a vehicle body including a travel device, a blade supported so as to be rotatable about a pitch axis with respect to the vehicle body, a pitch actuator configured to cause the blade to perform a pitch motion about the pitch axis, and a controller. The determines whether a slip occurs on the travel device during work with the blade, and causes the blade to perform the pitch motion in a backward tilt dir...