US Patent Issued to Kubota on April 22 for "Manipulator mechanism and working machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,460, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Manipulator mechanism and working machine" was invented by Hiroshi Horii (Osaka, Japan), Ryohei Masuda (Osaka, Japan) and Kunihiko Bito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manipulator mechanism includes a rotary shaft rotatable about an axis extending in a first horizontal direction, an operation member disposed at one of opposite ends of the rotary shaft in an axial direction thereof to rotate together with the rotary shaft, an angle sensor disposed at the other of the opposite ends of the rotary shaft in the axial direction to detect a rotation angle o...