US Patent Issued to Kubota on Dec. 2 for "Work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,976, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle" was invented by Shinya Tabata (Sakai, Japan) and Yuki Monde (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes a steering wheel attached to a support frame including a first lateral frame member positioned above a lower portion of a body, extending laterally, and coupled to right and left sections of the body; a second lateral frame member positioned above the first lateral frame member, extending laterally, and coupled to the right and left sections of the body; and a first vertical frame member extending vertically and coupled to the...