ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,561, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Work vehicle, control system for work vehicle, and control method" was invented by Kohei Okura (Sakai, Japan), Ryo Kurata (Sakai, Japan) and Kenta Hanajima (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle that performs auto-steer driving in forward travel and backward travel includes a position sensor to output chronological position data of the work vehicle, a controller configured or programmed to, in an automatic steering mode, perform steering control for the work vehicle based on the chronological position data and a target path that is previously set...