US Patent Issued to Great Plains Manufacturing on June 2 for "Work machine system with multiple cameras" (Kansas, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,258, issued on June 2, was assigned to Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. (Salina, Kan.).

"Work machine system with multiple cameras" was invented by Toshihiko Takemura (Grapevine, Texas), Yuji Fukuda (Grapevine, Kan.) and Jeff Welsh (Abilene, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a work machine and an attachment removably coupled with the work machine. The attachment includes an identification module comprising a transceiver configured to communicate with a control system of the work machines so as to improve the functionality and efficiency of the attachment and of the work machines."

The patent was filed on Oct. 10,...