ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,362, issued on June 3, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Housing body and working machine" was invented by Kazuyuki Hatta (Sakai, Japan), Hiroyuki Ueda (Sakai, Japan), Tadayoshi Umemoto (Sakai, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Enomoto (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed art includes: a machine body; an operator's seat mounted on the machine body and including a seat part and a backrest part; a manipulator base disposed on a lateral side of the operator's seat; and a housing body for housing a printed material therein, and the housing body is disposed forward of the backrest part and on the opposite side of the m...