ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,903, issued on April 7, was assigned to Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. (Salina, Kan.).
"Attachment management system" was invented by Zachary Schmidt (Salina, Kan.), Yuji Fukuda (Salina, Kan.) and Elizabeth Baker (Flower Mound, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment management system comprises a working vehicle, a plurality of attachments, a mobile terminal, and a plurality of communication tags fixed on the attachments to communicate with the mobile terminal through a wireless signal that is compliant with a near field communication standard. The mobile terminal is switchable between a first mode to receive the wireless...