ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,767, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Work vehicle" was invented by Satoshi Takaki (Sakai, Japan), Takahiro Usami (Sakai, Japan) and Junichi Murakami (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes a vehicle body frame having a vehicle body front part and a vehicle body rear part, and a cab frame connected to the vehicle body frame and being rotatable about a rotational shaft provided on the vehicle body rear part to be mounted on the vehicle body front part when the cab frame is in a closed state and to be separated from the vehicle body front part when the cab frame is in an open ...