US Patent Issued to Kubota on June 30 for "Work machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,120, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work machine" was invented by Kohei Ono (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes (i) an air cleaner being on the inner side of a motive section relative to a radiator and having an air intake port facing an air intake section of a hood and (ii) an air intake state switcher switchable between an outside air introducing state and a hot air introducing state, wherein in the outside air introducing state, the air intake state switcher causes outside air to be introduced through the air intake port, and in the hot air introducing state, the a...