ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,271, issued on July 14, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).
"Control system for work machine, control method for work machine, and work machine" was invented by Hiroaki Ikeda (Tokyo) and Shinichi Kitao (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a work machine includes a controller. The work machine includes work equipment, a traveling device, and a parking brake. The controller is configured to output a control command to control the parking brake based on at least an operation state of the work equipment."
The patent was filed on Feb. 18, 2022, under Application No. 18/256,537.
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