ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,286, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Map generation system and map generation method" was invented by Shunsuke Miyashita (Sakai, Japan) and Yusuke Murata (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map generation system generates map data for an agricultural machine to automatically travel on a road around a field, and includes a storage to store feature block images associated with different types of road features, and a processor configured or programmed to acquire position distribution data on one or more types of road features, the position distribution data being generated based on at least ...