US Patent Issued to Kubota on Sept. 22 for "Work vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,565, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle" was invented by Kohei Ono (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle including an electric actuator; a battery configured to supply drive power to the electric actuator; a charging section via which the battery is chargeable from a power source external to a vehicle body; and a discharge operation apparatus configured to cause the battery to discharge during charging of the battery."

The patent was filed on Dec. 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/539,994.

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