US Patent Issued to Kubota on Dec. 2 for "Working machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,762, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working machine" was invented by Ryosuke Kinugawa (Sakai, Japan), Ryo Ikeda (Sakai, Japan), Keisuke Miura (Sakai, Japan) and Kenji Ishihara (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working machine includes a traveling vehicle that is a first moving entity, a working device that is a second moving entity coupled to the first moving entity, and a sub battery loaded on the second moving entity to store an energy source to drive the traveling vehicle. Therefore, it is not necessary to newly provide a configuration to load the sub battery on the traveling vehicle, a...