US Patent Issued to Yanmar Power Technology on July 29 for "Automatic driving method, work vehicle, and automatic driving system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,964, issued on July 29, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automatic driving method, work vehicle, and automatic driving system" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Osaka, Japan), Yuji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Masaaki Murayama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an automatic driving method, a work vehicle, and an automatic driving system, by which it is possible to perform automatic travel with improved operability. A combine is a work vehicle executing an automatic travel, based on a preset travel route, and includes a steering wheel being a turn operation tool that accepts a turn op...