ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,183, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural assistance system, agricultural machine, and agricultural assistance apparatus" was invented by Kotaro Yamaguchi (Sakai, Japan), Ken Sakuta (Sakai, Japan), Ryo Kuboshima (Sakai, Japan) and Kuya Kaihori (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural assistance system includes a route creator to create, on a map representing an agricultural field, a travel route along which an agricultural machine travels, an input to receive input of a turn mode which is one of turn modes differing in terms of how a traveling device of the agricultural machi...