US Patent Issued to Kubota on June 24 for "Working vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,780, issued on June 24, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working vehicle" was invented by Ryosuke Tanaka (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, an engine mounted on the vehicle body, a hood covering the engine, a driver's seat on one side with respect to the hood in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, a step extending under the driver's seat and having a width wider than a lateral width of the hood in a left-right direction of the vehicle body, and a ROPS including left and right columns respectively located on two lateral sides of the vehicle body between a front end...