US Patent Issued to Kubota on July 15 for "Support system for working vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,879, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Support system for working vehicle" was invented by Yuki Kubota (Sakai, Japan), Yoshiaki Hiruta (Sakai, Japan), Tsuyoshi Gono (Sakai, Japan) and Ryosuke Kinugawa (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support system for a working vehicle includes a working vehicle including a vehicle body to travel selectively under manual steering or automatic steering, a controller, and a communicator, the controller is configured or programmed to define a planned travel line for and control the automatic steering based on a reference line, the communicator receiving a re...