US Patent Issued to Kubota on Sept. 9 for "Mobile machine, control unit, and method of controlling operation of a mobile machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,493, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Mobile machine, control unit, and method of controlling operation of a mobile machine" 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, a storage to store environment map data indicating a distribution of trunks of the multip...