US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on July 29 for "Autonomous steering method, autonomous steering system, and autonomous steering program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,510, issued on July 29, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous steering method, autonomous steering system, and autonomous steering program" was invented by Masafumi Saito (Okayama, Japan) and Seungkyu Lee (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning control unit performs positioning of a position of a work machine. A vehicle control device causes the work machine to execute autonomous steering on the basis of position information indicating the position of the work machine, for which the positioning is performed. A restriction processing unit permits predetermined processing related to t...