US Patent Issued to Kubota on Nov. 3 for "Path planning system for self-driving agricultural machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,156, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Path planning system for self-driving agricultural machine" was invented by Yuki Kubota (Sakai, Japan), Toru Tambo (Sakai, Japan), Itsuki Okubo (Sakai, Japan) and Kazuki Ota (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path planning system for an agricultural machine performing self-driving includes a storage to store a map including fields, waiting areas, and a road connecting the fields and waiting areas to each other, and a processor configured or programmed to generate a path on the map for the agricultural machine for each of working days. The processor is con...