ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,013, issued on April 21, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work machine" was invented by Ryosuke Tanaka (Sakai, Japan), Naoya Okamoto (Sakai, Japan), Katsumi Yanagihara (Sakai, Japan), Nobuki Daimon (Sakai, Japan) and Yuta Tsujimoto (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes an exhaust pipe and an outside air mixing cylinder including a guiding cylinder section and an expanding cylinder section, the guiding cylinder section including an exhaust gas guide path to guide exhaust gas from a downstream end of the exhaust pipe in a discharge direction of the exhaust pipe, the expanding cylinder sectio...