ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,640, issued on July 21, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural machine, sensing system used in agricultural machine, and sensing method utilizing techniques to search environment around agricultural machine" was invented by Yushi Matsuzaki (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system for a mobile agricultural machine includes one or more sensors to sense an environment around the agricultural machine to output sensing data, and a processor configured or programmed to detect an object in a search region around the agricultural machine based on the sensing data and to change a pattern of the search ...