ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,267, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Automatic travel system for work vehicle" was invented by Takuyua Iwase (Osaka, Japan), Shiro Sugita (Osaka, Japan) and Shinya Nishibeppu (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic travel system for a work vehicle has an automatic travel control unit that causes a work vehicle, which is provided with an obstacle detection unit that detects obstacles, to travel automatically. The obstacle detection unit includes imaging units and active sensors. When the obstacle detection unit detects an obstacle based on information from the imag...