ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,761, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Monitoring system for working machine" was invented by Keisuke Miura (Osaka, Japan), Ryo Ikeda (Osaka, Japan) and Ryosuke Kinugawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a working machine includes: a position detector to determine a position of a working machine based on radio waves from positioning satellite(s); an area setter to set work area information indicating whether work area(s) is/are in a shielded environment or an unshielded environment, the work area(s) being area(s) where work is to be done by the working machine, the shi...