US Patent Issued to YANMAR HOLDINGS on July 15 for "Combine harvester and travel route correction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,878, issued on July 15, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Combine harvester and travel route correction method" was invented by Hidetaka Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Yuji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Yasuto Nishii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester includes a control device configured to function as a travel route creation unit, an automatic drive control unit, a course movement unit, and a course correction unit. The travel route creation unit creates, in a yet-to-be-reaped area of a field, a travel route that includes parallel first and second straight-line courses. The automatic driv...