ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,957, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle, program, recording medium, and method" was invented by Hiroshi Miyake (Sakai, Japan), Akiya Shibutani (Sakai, Japan), Norita Tottori (Sakai, Japan), Tsuyoshi Gono (Sakai, Japan) and Keiji Takahashi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes a battery, an operating apparatus to be supplied with power from the battery, an operating apparatus manager to manage operation of the operating apparatus, a reporting device in a driver's section, a voltage drop amount detector to detect an amount of voltage drop in the battery, and a vo...