ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,548, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Agricultural work machine such as harvester" was invented by Shunsuke Edo (Sakai, Japan), Kenichi Iwami (Sakai, Japan), Shunsuke Miyashita (Sakai, Japan) and Takashi Nakabayashi (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a harvester configured to effect a work-performing traveling for harvesting agricultural products in a field while traveling in the field autonomously. This harvester includes a traveling device effecting the work-performing traveling, a machine body supported to the traveling device, a harvesting section supported to a front portio...