ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,579, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Komatsu Ltd. (Tokyo).

"System and method for controlling work machine" was invented by Hikaru Suzuki (Tokyo), Tsutomu Iwamura (Tokyo), Sho Nozaki (Tokyo), Ryuji Kanda (Tokyo), Daishi Iwanaga (Tokyo), Tomokazu Hirao (Tokyo), Yuta Uchida (Tokyo), Yuki Shimano (Tokyo), Jun Sasaki (Tokyo) and Jin Kitajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement value acquisition unit acquires measurement values from a plurality of sensors. A posture calculation unit calculates a posture of an attachment with respect to a vehicle body based on the measurement values. An operation signal acquisition unit ...