US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on July 14 for "Activation system of work machine and activation method of work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,275, issued on July 14, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Activation system of work machine and activation method of work machine" was invented by Tomofumi Hokari (Tokyo), Yuichiro Yasuda (Tokyo), Kenji Nozaki (Tokyo) and Kosuke Iwata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An activation system of a work machine includes a vehicle body control unit outputting a control signal to drive a vehicle body of the work machine with power supplied by a power source, and an authentication unit performing authentication of an operator of the work machine. The activation system of a work machine first activates the authentication unit, and ac...