ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,322, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Agricultural machine" was invented by Shogo Hayashida (Sakai, Japan), Susumu Umemoto (Sakai, Japan), Shinnosuke Ishikawa (Sakai, Japan) and Junichi Yuasa (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes a swath information acquiring module, a first determining module to determine a traveling path of an automatic operation based on a position of a swath, a setting module to set a work continuation width based on the traveling path, a second determining module to determine, when there is a manual operation by a worker during the automat...