ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,522, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Work machine" was invented by Yoshio Kusunose (Okayama, Japan), Mitsuru Kobayashi (Okayama, Japan), Seungkyu Lee (Okayama, Japan) and Yutaka Morikawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine, in which manual steering and automatic steering are switchable, includes: a manual steering device; an automatic steering device that receives a switching operation and switches the manual steering to the automatic steering; and a first operation member that receives a first operation and causes a part of the work machine to be operated. The firs...