US Patent Issued to Kubota on July 21 for "Working vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,450, issued on July 21, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working vehicle" was invented by Toru Tambo (Sakai, Japan), Shunsuke Miyashita (Sakai, Japan), Yasuaki Morioka (Sakai, Japan), Kunihiko Nishino (Sakai, Japan) and Misako Kikumoto (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce complexity of operation when a working vehicle performs automatic steering, the working vehicle includes a vehicle body to be manually steered with a steering wheel or automatically steered to travel forward or rearward, an operator's seat on the vehicle body, a console located forward of the operator's seat or located on one side...