ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,975, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle and method for controlling work vehicle" was invented by Kohei Horai (Sakai, Japan), Yoshihiko Kuroshita (Sakai, Japan) and Michita Kono (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes a transmission to shift gears by switching between main transmission gears and auxiliary transmission gears, an input interface for a user to set a value of the main transmission gear corresponding to at least one of the auxiliary transmission gears, a storage to store a correspondence between the auxiliary transmission gear and the value, and a cont...