ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,769, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Work vehicle" was invented by Kohei Ono (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle including a travel device supporting a body of the work vehicle in such a manner as to enable the body to travel; a power take-off shaft configured to output power out from the body; a travel electric motor configured to drive the travel device; a work electric motor configured to drive the power take-off shaft to rotate; a power-transmission-state switching mechanism configured to be switched between (i) an independent power transmission state in which output from th...