US Patent Issued to Kubota on April 8 for "System to adjust object detection direction for agricultural machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,112, issued on April 8, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"System to adjust object detection direction for agricultural machine" was invented by Kenji Tamatani (Sakai, Japan), Yuji Okuyama (Sakai, Japan), Kazuo Sakaguchi (Sakai, Japan) and Yusuke Takahashi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a detector to detect objects in an area surrounding the traveling vehicle body, a detection adjuster to adjust a detection direction of the detector, a position sensor to detect a position of the traveling vehicle body, and an information acquirer to acquire informatio...