US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on Jan. 20 for "Route creation method, work vehicle, and autonomous travel system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,038, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Route creation method, work vehicle, and autonomous travel system" was invented by Hidetaka Suzuki (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan) and Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a combine harvester, a terminal-side control device of a portable terminal functions as a route creation unit and a route determination unit. The route creation unit creates an autonomous travel route including a plurality of work routes for performing work in an unworked region of the field and a turning route connecting the two work rou...