ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,056, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working machine and working device" was invented by Hirokazu Sasamoto (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A raking machine includes a traveling vehicle, a rake coupled to the traveling vehicle to rake grass in an agricultural field and form a swath, a sensor to obtain a state of the grass or the swath in the agricultural field, and a controller to change, when the rake performs raking, setting information regarding the rake based on the state obtained by the sensor."

The patent was filed on April 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/140,241.

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