US Patent Issued to Kubota on May 13 for "Work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,743, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle" was invented by Hiroaki Iizuka (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Hashimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Shuichi Takeshita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes: a vehicle body that travels; a boom attached to the vehicle body to be vertically swingable; a work tool mounted to a front portion of the boom; a first illumination lamp that is disposed in the vehicle body and emits an illumination light forward; a second illumination lamp that is disposed in the boom and emits an illumination light toward the work tool; and an illumination control...