ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,971, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Systems and methods for work vehicles" was invented by Pius Ng (Fremont, Calif.), Shan Wan (Fremont, Calif.), Kotaro Shimada (Fremont, Calif.), Shankar Radhakrishnan (Fremont, Calif.) and William Ng (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes selecting a registered route of a work vehicle system, the registered route including one or more task points each of which including a geographical location, capturing first data of an agricultural item before a particular agricultural task is performed by a work vehicle at a particular task point of the...