US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on July 28 for "Control device, control method, and work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,683, issued on July 28, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and work machine" was invented by Ryota Enomoto (Tokyo), Rie Kawamata (Tokyo), Yuji Fukuda (Tokyo), Takahisa Oasa (Tokyo) and Shozo Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a signal input unit configured to input a signal from a first signal line connected to a first switch configured to detect press and release of a momentary operation push button for setting and releasing lock of an operation of work equipment and input a signal from a second signal line connected to a second switch linked to the first switc...