ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,059, issued on May 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Work machine and information management apparatus" was invented by Toru Kawai (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine which includes a GNSS sensor that detects a GNSS signal and a beacon signal detection sensor that detects a signal of a beacon, and which is a self-propelled work machine that performs work in a work region based on results of detection by the GNSS sensor and the beacon signal detection sensor, the work machine comprising a specification unit configured to specify a region in which accuracy of specifying a self-position of the wor...