ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,535, issued on March 11, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Combine harvester" was invented by Yuji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester includes a control device, and the control device functions as a travel route creation section which creates a travel route corresponding to a field, and as an automatic driving control section which controls automatic travel and automatic reaping along the travel route. The control device also functions as a lodging information setting section which automatically or manually sets lodging information associated with a lodging region in wh...