ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,486, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working machine" was invented by Daiki Tamba (Osaka, Japan), Yukifumi Yamanaka (Osaka, Japan) and Yuki Shimoike (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The working machine includes a machine body, an engine provided on the machine body, a motor generator to be operated as a motor to assist driving of the engine in an assisting operation and to be operated as a generator by power of the engine to generate electricity in a generating operation, a battery to store the electricity generated by the motor generator, an acceleration sensor to measure acceleration of ...