US Patent Issued to Yanmar Power Technology on July 22 for "Automated travel system for spraying work" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,862, issued on July 22, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automated travel system for spraying work" was invented by Akihiro Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Akihiro Nakahata (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiharu Mizukura (Osaka, Japan) and Keita Kitano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This automated travel system for spraying work has a target path generation unit for generating a target path for a spraying work. A work vehicle is provided with left and right liquid spraying units which have spraying patterns including: a four-direction spraying pattern in which each of the left and right liquid spraying units ...