ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,084, issued on April 15, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for controlling work machine, work machine control program, and work machine control system" was invented by Masashi Danguchi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for controlling the work machine includes executing a restraint process of restraining an operation of the work machine based on a detection result of a detector detecting a detection target in a monitoring area around the work machine, performing switching between an enabled state and a disabled state of a function associated with the restraint process, and display...