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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,913, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automatic traveling system, automatic traveling method, and automatic traveling program" was invented by Maroi Kodama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning unit measures the position of a tractor. An automatic traveling control unit causes the tractor to automatically travel according to a target route on the basis of positioning information of the positioning unit. In the case where the tractor changes its direction on a direction change route, when the distance from a field to an end position at which the front-rear direction of the...