US Patent Issued to Kubota on Dec. 30 for "Work vehicle with quality determination device for grass" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,617, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle with quality determination device for grass" was invented by Susumu Morimoto (Amagasaki, Japan), Mayuko Tonari (Amagasaki, Japan) and Ryuji Hashizume (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle configured to carry out work travel in a pasture land where harvested pasture grass 1 is present, the work vehicle having a quality determination device 20 configured to determine quality of the pasture grass 1 in the course of the work traveling. The quality determination device 20 includes a cylindrical grass sending tube 21, a grass taking...