ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,051, issued on June 17, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Automatic travel system" was invented by Keishi Kinuta (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic travel system is provided with a storage unit that stores a first reference line and a second reference line; a travel path generation unit that generates parallel paths, each of which is parallel to the first reference line or the second reference line; and an automatic travel control unit that causes a work vehicle to travel automatically along the parallel paths generated by the travel path generation unit."
The patent was filed o...