US Patent Issued to Kubota on Feb. 3 for "Work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,670, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle" was invented by Shinya Tabata (Sakai, Japan), Takeshi Satozono (Sakai, Japan), Kunihiro Yoneguchi (Sakai, Japan), Kazuhiro Tanaka (Sakai, Japan) and Michisuke Iga (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes a shift operation tool to operate a shift position of a transmission device; an engine control unit to start an engine based on a start command from a start operation tool and an operation state of the shift operation tool; a neutral position detector to detect the shift operation tool being at a neutral position and output a...