US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Sept. 9 for "Work machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,585, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine" was invented by Hiroyuki Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a work machine allowing a steering operation device to be enhanced in reliability. The steering operation device includes a joystick, a first electric lever, and an input unit. The joystick receives an operator's operation. The first electric lever includes a first main body unit and a first lever unit tiltable with respect to the first main body unit, and outputs a tilt angle of the first lever unit with respect to the first main body unit. The input unit inputs an inp...