US Patent Issued to YANMAR HOLDINGS on April 21 for "Combine and method for generating travel route" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,789, issued on April 21, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Combine and method for generating travel route" was invented by Hidetaka Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Yuji Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Yasuto Nishii (Osaka, Japan) and Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine includes a control device configured to function as a travel route creating unit which creates a travel route corresponding to an agricultural field, and as an automatic operation control unit which controls automatic traveling and automatic reaping along the travel route. The travel route creating unit, when creating a t...