ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,276, issued on May 13, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Autonomous travel system" was invented by Kohei Ogura (Osaka, Japan), Yasuto Nishii (Osaka, Japan) and Taiki Shirafuji (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This autonomous travel system is provided with a farm field acquisition unit, a reference auxiliary line creation unit, an adjacent auxiliary line creation unit, and a travel control unit. The farm field acquisition unit acquires information regarding a farm field that includes a work area and a headland area. The reference auxiliary line creation unit creates first reference auxiliary...