US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on Nov. 4 for "Automatic traveling method, automatic traveling system, and automatic traveling program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,534, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automatic traveling method, automatic traveling system, and automatic traveling program" was invented by Koji Miyake (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling processing unit causes a work vehicle to automatically travel along a target route set within a field. A detection processing unit detects an obstacle located on an outer periphery of the field, while the work vehicle is traveling along the target route in a headland area of the field. In a case where the obstacle is a ridge, the traveling processing unit causes the work vehicle to ...