US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on March 11 for "Autonomous and manual mode swtiching for utility vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,738, issued on March 11, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Autonomous and manual mode swtiching for utility vehicle" was invented by Hiroshi Ishii (Akashi, Japan), Taro Iwamoto (Akashi, Japan), Takeshi Nakajima (Akashi, Japan), Kazuya Nagasaka (Kobe, Japan), Atsushi Sano (Kobe, Japan) and Kazuhiro Ichikawa (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A utility vehicle includes: a travel structure including a front wheel, a rear wheel, a steering structure mounted to the front wheel, and a drive source that drives the front wheel and/or the rear wheel; at least one operator used to operate the travel structure; ci...