ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,803, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Work machine" was invented by Shota Tanabe (Saitama, Japan), Nobuo Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan) and Jun Fukano (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes: a pair of drive wheels that is either front wheels or rear wheels; a pair of non-driving wheels that is the other of the front wheels and the rear wheels; a work device disposed between the front wheels and the rear wheels; a machine body; and a control device including an automatic turn-execution unit configured to execute an automatic turn in a U shape. The automatic-turn execution uni...