US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on March 17 for "Position estimating system, position estimating unit, work machine, and extension unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,759, issued on March 17, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Position estimating system, position estimating unit, work machine, and extension unit" was invented by Mitsuhiko Kamado (Tokyo) and Takashi Sakai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position estimating system includes a first posture detector disposed in a linkage mechanism, and a controller that estimates information regarding the position of a bucket with respect to a work machine based on data regarding a shape of a first work implement, data regarding a shape of a second work implement, information regarding a posture of the first work implement, and a value de...