US Patent Issued to Kubota on March 31 for "Working vehicle and attachment usage system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,444, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working vehicle and attachment usage system" was invented by Yuji Fukuda (Sakai, Japan) and Tomoyuki Noguchi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working vehicle includes a linkage to attach/detach an attachment thereto/therefrom, a receiver to receive wireless signal(s) which are transmitted periodically from transmitter(s) in or on one or more of the attachments, which include respective piece(s) of identification information of the attachment(s), and which are compliant with a near field communication standard, and a controller configured or programm...