US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on April 14 for "Autonomous operation method, work vehicle, and autonomous operation system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,045, issued on April 14, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous operation method, work vehicle, and autonomous operation system" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Osaka, Japan), Yuji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Masaaki Murayama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester is a work vehicle capable of switching between a manual travel mode to travel based on operation of an operation tool including a steering wheel which is a turning operation tool and an autonomous traveling mode to travel based on a predetermined travel route, which includes a controller to function as an autonomous t...