US Patent Issued to Yanmar Power Technology on July 29 for "Automated driving system for work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,506, issued on July 29, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automated driving system for work vehicle" 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 automatic travel system for a work vehicle is provided with: a position information obtaining unit; and an automatic travel control unit that causes a work vehicle to automatically travel along a target path. The automatic travel control unit sets a control target position on the target path including a plurality of work path...