US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on June 30 for "Control device, operation device, control method, and work vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,946, issued on June 30, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control device, operation device, control method, and work vehicle" was invented by Yuki Arai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device is a control device that controls a drawbar attached to a main frame of a grader, in which a movement of the drawbar is generated by at least three actuators, and the control device controls, based on an output signal from one operation lever having at least three degrees of freedom, the plurality of actuators such that a movement of the one operation lever corresponds to the movement of the drawbar."

The patent was filed ...