ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,264, issued on July 14, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Working vehicle and attachment usage system" was invented by Yuji Fukuda (Sakai, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nishida (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working vehicle includes a machine body, a lifter on the machine body, a linkage to attach and detach an attachment thereto and therefrom, the linkage being supported by the lifter such that the linkage is raisable and lowerable by the lifter, and a controller configured or programmed to select identification information of the attachment attached to the linkage and start a predetermined process based on the sel...