US Patent Issued to Kubota on April 8 for "Working vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,111, issued on April 8, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working vehicle" was invented by Shunya Takase (Sakai, Japan), Hiroki Suga (Sakai, Japan), Shinji Misaki (Sakai, Japan), Koji Matsuda (Sakai, Japan) and Yuto Shimizu (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working vehicle includes an operator's seat, a vehicle body to travel selectively using either manual steering performed manually by the operator or automatic steering performed based on a position of the vehicle body detected by a position detector without manual operation by the operator, and a first operation actuator on a lateral side of the operator's...