ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,939, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automatic run method, automatic run system, and automatic run program" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan), Akifumi Kuroda (Okayama, Japan), Shinya Nishibeppu (Okayama, Japan) and Masahito Adachi (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection process unit detects an error of at least any of a plurality of work vehicles. A report process unit causes, when an error of a work vehicle among the plurality of work vehicles is detected, specific information on the work vehicle to be reported at an opera...