ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,230, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Working machine" was invented by Ryota Hamamoto (Sakai, Japan), Hiroaki Nakagawa (Sakai, Japan) and Yuji Fukuda (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working machine includes a machine body, a working device provided on the machine body movably up and down with respect to the machine body, a protector provided on the machine body to protect an operator's seat on the machine body, a detector provided on the protector to detect an obstacle higher than the protector, and a controller configured or programmed to, when the detector detects the obstacle, perform...