US Patent Issued to Kubota on July 8 for "Agricultural support system, and device and method to generate travel route for hailed agricultural machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,209, issued on July 8, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural support system, and device and method to generate travel route for hailed agricultural machine" was invented by Kazuo Sakaguchi (Sakai, Japan), Kenji Tamatani (Sakai, Japan) and Yusuke Takahashi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural support system includes a terminal to hail a self-driving agricultural machine to a hailing point, and a processor to generate, in an area excluding an already-worked area of the agricultural machine, a travel route for the agricultural machine to head toward the hailing point."

The patent was filed on...