ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,762, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Working vehicle and attachment usage system" was invented by Yuji Fukuda (Sakai, Japan), Tomoyuki Noguchi (Sakai, Japan) and Ryuki Matsumoto (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working vehicle includes a hitch, a receiver to receive wireless signal(s) from transmitter(s) in/on attachment(s) and including piece(s) of identification information of the attachment(s), and a controller configured or programmed to select identification information of the attached attachment based on the piece(s) of identification information included in the received signal(s) ...