ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,844, issued on May 6, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fuel supply guide and working machine" was invented by Hiroshi Horii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To ease work of transferring a fuel from a fuel supply tank to a fuel tank, a fuel supply guide to be used to supply the fuel by using the fuel supply tank to the fuel tank having a tank body for storing the fuel and a fuel supply port on the upper side of the tank body includes a support member provided on an upper portion of the fuel tank, and a body member projecting from the support member in a direction away from the fuel supply port as the body memb...