US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on June 24 for "Automatic run method, work vehicle, and automatic run system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,452, issued on June 24, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automatic run method, work vehicle, and automatic run system" 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 combine harvester includes a control device and a portable terminal. The control device functions as a discharge run control unit for doing an automatic discharge run based on a discharge route or a return run control unit for doing an automatic return run based on a return route. The portable terminal is provid...