ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,490, issued on June 17, was assigned to KUBOTA CORPORATIN (Osaka, Japan).

"Working vehicle and attachment usage system" was invented by Yuji Fukuda (Sakai, Japan) and Ryota Hamamoto (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is configured or programmed to cause a first memory to store, for a period of time, piece(s) of identification information included in wireless signal(s) transmitted from transmitter(s) in or on attachment(s) and received by a receiver in or on a working vehicle, when one of the attachment(s) is attached to a hitch, select a piece of identification information of the attachment attached to the hitc...