ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,891, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Autonomous driving system" was invented by Shinya Nishibeppu (Osaka, Japan) and Takuya Iwase (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote controller including an emergency stop button that receives an emergency stop operation, a temporary stop button that receives a temporary stop operation, and a control unit that restarts the running of a tractor when a running restart operation is performed after the tractor has been temporary stopped, the running restart operation including a pressing operation for pressing the temporary stop button...