ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,198, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Mobile machine, data generation unit, and method of generating data" was invented by Junichi Yuasa (Sakai, Japan), Shunsuke Miyashita (Sakai, Japan), Takuya Tamai (Sakai, Japan), Shunsuke Edo (Sakai, Japan) and Ryo Kurata (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile machine movable between multiple rows of trees includes one or more sensors to output sensor data indicating a distribution of objects in a surrounding environment of the mobile machine, and a data generator. While performing localization, the data generator is configured or programmed to detec...