ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,790, issued on April 21, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automatic traveling method, automatic traveling program, automatic traveling system, and work vehicle" was invented by Terasu Homma (Osaka, Japan), Tomohisa Kano (Osaka, Japan), Hidehiro Yuki (Osaka, Japan), Kohei Ota (Osaka, Japan), Ryosuke Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Masaki Akase (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The automatic traveling method includes: causing a sprayer 1 to travel automatically along a target route in a field; executing temporary stop processing; and executing stop reservation processing. The temporary stop processing i...