ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,378, issued on Nov. 4, 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, a lift frame rotatably supported about a lift axis, a blade rotatably supported about a pitch axis with respect to the lift frame, a lift actuator, a pitch actuator, a sensor detects a current blade tip position of the blade, and a controller. The controller acquires actual topography data indicative of an actual topography to be worked, acquires target topography data indicative of a tar...