ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,169, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working vehicle" was invented by Kotaro Nagai (Sakai, Japan), Yuichi Nakamukai (Sakai, Japan), Ryoma Iwase (Sakai, Japan) and Takanori Ito (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working vehicle includes a hydraulic transmission chamber to accommodate a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor driven by fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump, and a primary transmission casing to accommodate a primary transmission that includes an input gear to receive power from a prime mover and a transmission gear to transmit the power transmitted from the input gear to the h...