US Patent Issued to KOMATSU, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 24 for "Work site management system and work site management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,932, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Work site management system and work site management method" was invented by Takashi Hiranaka (Tokyo), Shota Konishi (Tokyo), Shun Mizoo (Zama, Japan), Shun Maruyama (Numazu, Japan), Takahiro Okano (Chiryu, Japan) and Toru Takashima (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work site management system includes: a traveling path generation unit that generates a traveling path; and a protection area setting unit that sets a protection area in which a target vehicle is to be present based on a position of a first unmanned vehicle...