ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,242, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Utility vehicle" was invented by Hiroki Bessho (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A utility vehicle includes traveling devices 11, 12 that support a travel body on a ground surface; a motive power unit provided on the travel body; a power transmission device 20 that transmits motive power from the motive power unit to the traveling devices 11, 12 as travel power; a speed change operation tool 18 that changes a vehicle speed, which is the speed of the travel power, a vehicle speed limiting operation tool 34 that sets an upper limit of the vehicle speed, an...