ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,182, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Farming support system, position information generation method, computer program, and processing device" was invented by Hirokazu Sasamoto (Sakai, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nishida (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farming support system includes a position detector provided in one of a work vehicle and a rake implement attachable to the work vehicle, and a processor configured or programmed to obtain, based on information about the rake implement, a positional relationship between a reference point to be positioned by the position detector and a swath to be f...