ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,036, issued on March 4, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Autonomous travel system" was invented by Shoichi Nakamura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous travel system is provided with a location acquisition unit, an inertia measuring device, a travel control unit, an initialization control unit, and a condition setting unit. The location acquisition unit acquires a location of a work vehicle by using a satellite positioning system. The inertia measuring device detects an orientation of the work vehicle. The travel control unit causes the work vehicle to travel autonomously along ...