ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,104, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Management method, management terminal, and management system" was invented by Yusuke Nishida (Okayama, Japan), Tomoki Imai (Okayama, Japan), Shogo Otomo (Osaka, Japan) and Susumu Kawai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management terminal, which manages one of a tractor, a rice transplanter, and a combine harvester, as a plurality of types of work machines that perform a plurality of types of work, respectively, on a field, is provided with a storage portion which stores a management application for managing the plurality of types of work ...