US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Sept. 30 for "Haul vehicle management system and haul vehicle management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,873, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Haul vehicle management system and haul vehicle management method" was invented by Takashi Hiranaka (Tokyo), Atsushi Sakai (Tokyo), Yuji Kobashi (Tokyo) and Kenta Osagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haul vehicle management system includes: a three-dimensional data acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional data outside an outline of a traveling area where a haul vehicle can travel; and a course data generation unit that generates a traveling course of the haul vehicle on the basis of outer shape data of the haul vehicle and the three-dimensional data, ...