US Patent Issued to Kubota on June 23 for "Joint and work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,076, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Joint and work vehicle" was invented by Yusuke Endo (Sakai, Japan), Yumi Kushimoto (Sakai, Japan) and Yuki Monde (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint includes: a first coupling section configured to be coupled to an end of a first pipe; and a second coupling section configured to be coupled to an end of a second pipe. The first coupling section has: a first sealing portion configured to be continuous with a first sealing surface or a second sealing surface of the first pipe; and a first non-sealing portion configured to be continuous with a first no...