US Patent Issued to Kubota on April 1 for "Agricultural machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,655, issued on April 1, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural machine" was invented by Koichi Shintani (Sakai, Japan), Takanori Morimoto (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Kinoshita (Sakai, Japan), Ken Sakuta (Sakai, Japan), Fumiya Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan), Tsuyoshi Harada (Sakai, Japan) and Sho Watanabe (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a vehicle body, an obstacle detector to detect obstacles, an autonomous travel controller to perform autonomous travel of the vehicle body, the autonomous travel controller being configured or programmed to, when performing the autonomous travel,...