US Patent Issued to Kubota on Sept. 22 for "Path planning system and path planning method for agricultural machine performing self-traveling" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,103, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Path planning system and path planning method for agricultural machine performing self-traveling" 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 path planning system for an agricultural machine to automatically travel inside and outside a field includes a storage to store a map of a region including fields and roads, and a processor to generate a path for the agricultural machine on the map. The map includes attribute information representing, for each of the roads, at least one of whether the ro...