ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,498, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Cultivated land work vehicle and agricultural material replenishment method" was invented by Takanori Morimoto (Sakai, Japan), Kotaro Yamaguchi (Amagasaki, Japan) and Fumiya Yoshimura (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cultivated land work vehicle includes a vehicle position computer, a travel controller to control travel of the body based on a vehicle position and target routes, and a replenishment mode executor to execute a replenishment travel mode to replenish the cultivated land work vehicle with agricultural material, during U-turn transition trav...