ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,229, issued on May 5, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Working vehicle and attachment usage system" was invented by Yuji Fukuda (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working vehicle includes a hitch to attach and detach an attachment thereto and therefrom, a receiver to receive wireless signal(s) which are transmitted periodically from transmitter(s) in or on the attachment(s), 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. The controller is configured or programmed to perform a selecting proc...