US Patent Issued to Kubota on Feb. 17 for "Work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,275, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle" was invented by Yuji Hirase (Osaka, Japan), Sumio Yagyu (Osaka, Japan), Kazuto Okazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Tsunehiro Ii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle including: a front wheel; a rear travel device; a travel body supported by the front wheel and the rear travel device; a driving section provided in the travel body and having an occupant floor section; a transmission configured to output power to the rear travel device; a transmission case housing the transmission; an electric motor coupled to the transmission; and an invert...