ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,750, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle" was invented by Hirokazu Ito (Sakai, Japan) and Takashi Shibata (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device 50 controls rotation of a first motor 21 and controls rotation of a second motor 22. In response to receiving a forward travel command from an operating device 51, the control device 50 controls rotation of the second motor 22 in such a manner that combined motive power output by a planetary gear mechanism 41 is used as forward motive power. In response to receiving a reverse travel command from the operating device 51, the contr...