ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,608, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Route generation method, route generation system, and route generation program" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan) and Hidetaka Suzuki (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception processing unit receives a traveling operation performed by an operator. An acquisition processing unit acquires position information of a work vehicle traveling on a road that connects a field and a field, based on the traveling operation. A generation processing unit generates an inter-field route on which the work v...