ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,482, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural work assistance system, agricultural work assistance apparatus, and agricultural machine" was invented by Takanori Morimoto (Sakai, Japan), Takafumi Morishita (Sakai, Japan), Kenji Tamatani (Sakai, Japan), Fumiya Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan), Ryota Kikuchi (Sakai, Japan) and Ken Sakuta (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural work assistance system includes a display to display a map representing an agricultural field, and a controller configured or programmed to define or function as an area setter to set a first area and a second area...