ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,970, issued on April 1, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Agricultural machine" was invented by Tomohiro Kinoshita (Sakai, Japan), Takanori Morimoto (Sakai, Japan), Susumu Umemoto (Sakai, Japan) and Shinnosuke Ishikawa (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a coupler to couple a working implement with the traveling vehicle body, and a takeoff/landing station to restrict a skid of an unmanned aerial vehicle when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands. The agricultural machine includes a protector to protect an operator's seat. The takeoff/landing stat...