ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,367, issued on June 9, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Work machine management system and work machine" was invented by Zihan Luo (Yokosuka, Japan) and Mizuki Kogawa (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine management system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire posture information indicating a posture of a driver of a work machine when boarding and alighting, a transmission unit configured to transmit the posture information to an outside of the work machine, and a determination unit configured to determine appropriateness of the posture when boarding and alighting based on ...