US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on Sept. 30 for "Autonomous travel system, autonomous travel method, and autonomous travel program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,874, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous travel system, autonomous travel method, and autonomous travel program" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Osaka, Japan) and Mamoru Takahashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A farm field setting processing unit sets an inner peripheral work region and an outer peripheral work region in a farm field having a shape where a right side and a left side that face each other are not parallel to each other. A work-direction setting processing unit sets a work direction for a work vehicle within the inner peripheral work region. A path sett...