US Patent Issued to Kubota on July 28 for "Attachment usage system" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,686, issued on July 28, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Attachment usage system" was invented by Yuji Fukuda (Sakai, Japan) and Joshua James Skanderup (Grapevine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment is operable to have therein or thereon a transmitter to periodically transmit a first wireless signal which includes a piece of first attachment information relating to the attachment and which is compliant with a near field communication standard. A portable device is operable to transmit a second wireless signal which includes a piece of second attachment information relating to the attachment to be attached...