US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on Aug. 19 for "Autonomous travel method, work vehicle, and autonomous travel system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,817, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous travel method, work vehicle, and autonomous travel system" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan) and Yuji Yamaguchi (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester is a work vehicle that pre-creates a plurality of travel routes parallel to a preset outline of a field and performs autonomous travel based on the travel routes, and includes a control device and a mobile terminal. The control device functions as the autonomous travel controller to control autonomous travel on the basi...