US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Sept. 9 for "Vehicle monitoring device and vehicle monitoring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,739, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle monitoring device and vehicle monitoring method" was invented by Kouji Hirukawa (Tokyo) and Tomoharu Hori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle monitoring device includes: a recurrence monitoring unit configured to, when an error that has occurred in an exhaust gas aftertreatment device is resolved, monitor recurrence of the error for a predetermined recurrence monitoring period; an output limiting unit configured to limit output of an internal combustion engine when the error recurs during the recurrence monitoring period; and a monitoring control unit...