ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,388, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electric work vehicle" was invented by Masahiro Yamada (Sakai, Japan), Hirokazu Ito (Sakai, Japan) and Makoto Odagiri (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work vehicle includes an electric work machine including a battery mounting unit on which a battery is detachably mountable; a battery housing unit supported by at least one wheel and configured to house the battery; and a battery carrier including the at least one wheel and a manual push handle configured to be manually pushed to move the battery housing unit. The battery housing unit is deta...