US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on Nov. 18 for "Autonomous driving method, combine, and autonomous driving system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,529, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous driving method, combine, and autonomous driving system" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Osaka, Japan) and Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester comprises a control device. The control device functions as a travel route creation unit, a discharge route creation unit, and an autonomous driving control unit. The travel route creation unit creates a travel route R for an unharvested area of a field. The discharge route creation unit creates a discharge route D that extends from an end position E, of th...