US Patent Issued to Yanmar Power Technology on Dec. 16 for "Autonomous traveling system for working vehicle to travel autonomously" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,721, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous traveling system for working vehicle to travel autonomously" was invented by Koji Miyake (Osaka, Japan), Shoichi Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Iwamura (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kuroda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This autonomous traveling system is provided with a path preparation unit, a forward movement control unit, a backward movement control unit, and a turn control unit. The path preparation unit prepares a plurality of straight line paths. The forward movement control unit causes a machine to execute work a...