ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,941, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working vehicle" was invented by Atsushi Kobayashi (Sakai, Japan), Tomofumi Fukunaga (Sakai, Japan), Hisao Mukai (Sakai, Japan), Kazuhiro Kawabata (Sakai, Japan) and Kota Matsumoto (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working vehicle includes an engine, a first flywheel to rotate upon receipt of rotational power of the engine, a transmission to selectively receive rotational power of the engine or rotational power of the engine and the first flywheel, speed-change the received rotational power, and output the speed-changed rotational power, a first power ...