US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Sept. 8 for "Work machine and control method for work machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,502, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine and control method for work machine" was invented by Shota Yamawaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel loader includes a vehicle body, a work implement, a bucket-to-ground angle detection section, and a control section. The work implement operates with respect to the vehicle body and includes a bucket or a fork. The bucket-to-ground angle detection section detects information on a tilt angle of the bucket or the fork with respect to a gravity direction. The control section controls the tilt angle of the bucket or the fork with respect to the gravit...