US Patent Issued to Kubota on Sept. 23 for "Agricultural support system and unmanned aerial vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,960, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural support system and unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Tomohiro Kinoshita (Sakai, Japan), Takanori Morimoto (Sakai, Japan), Susumu Umemoto (Sakai, Japan) and Shinnosuke Ishikawa (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural support system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle including a sensor, and an agricultural machine to travel in an agricultural field. When an abnormality occurs in the unmanned aerial vehicle while the agricultural machine performs work in the agricultural field in cooperation with the unmanned aerial vehicle,...