US Patent Issued to YANMAR HOLDINGS on Oct. 7 for "Autonomous travel method, autonomous travel system, and autonomous travel program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,533, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous travel method, autonomous travel system, and autonomous travel program" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan), Akifumi Kuroda (Okayama, Japan), Shinya Nishibeppu (Okayama, Japan) and Masahito Adachi (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous travel system causes a work vehicle to autonomously travel along an inter-field route preset for a road connecting a field and a field. A travel processor causes the work vehicle to be stopped at a route start position of the inter-field route an...