ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,819, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).
"Work machine and method for controlling work machine" was invented by Kazuyoshi Okabe (Tokyo), Shinichi Kitao (Tokyo) and Akira Takeno (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes a vehicle body, a rearward detecting section, and a control section. The vehicle body includes a traveling unit and a work implement disposed in front of the traveling unit. The rearward detecting section is configured to detect an object when traveling in reverse due to driving of the traveling unit. The control section is configured to decide to validate or invalidate a firs...