US Patent Issued to Kubota on June 23 for "Agricultural machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,731, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Agricultural machine" was invented by Shunsuke Miyashita (Sakai, Japan), Toru Tambo (Sakai, Japan) and Mitsuaki Nagao (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural machine includes an image recognition system to detect a row region including at least one of a crop and a ridge on a ground surface of a field, traveling equipment including a wheel responsible for steering, a controller configured or programmed to control the traveling equipment, and a start switch to give a command to start row-following travel where the controller is configured or prog...