ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,719, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electric work vehicle and power take-off control method" was invented by Hiroaki Hosozawa (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a new ground speed power take-off (G-PTO) map that includes a relationship between a current work vehicle speed and a target speed of a power take-off (PTO). The method includes setting a work vehicle speed for a point to be included in the new G-PTO map, setting a PTO speed for the point to be included in the new G-PTO map, plotting the point on the new G-PTO map, and plotting a line on the new G-PTO map b...