ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,674, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Control device and work vehicle" was invented by Hidetaka Suzuki (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan), Yuji Yamaguchi (Okayama, Japan) and Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control portion includes a vehicle-position acquiring portion, a field-contour setting portion, a region setting portion, and a display processing portion. The vehicle-position acquiring portion acquires position information indicating a position of the combine harvester traveling on a field. The field-contour setting portion sets a contour o...