US Patent Issued to YANMAR HOLDINGS on May 20 for "Combine and self-driving method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,789, issued on May 20, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Combine and self-driving method" was invented by Hidetaka Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Yuji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Yasuto Nishii (Osaka, Japan) and Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine is provided with a control device configured to function as a route generation unit, a position setting unit, a mid-work route generation unit, or a self-driving control unit. The route generation unit generates a travel route by combining a plurality of routes for an unreaped region in a field. To perform mid-work corresponding to the wor...