ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,998, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work support method, work support system, and program" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan) and Yuji Yamaguchi (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work support method that supports work that uses a work vehicle includes: switching a run mode to an automatic run mode in which the work vehicle is caused to automatically run in a farm field; switching, when a given condition is met in the automatic run mode, the run mode to a manual run mode in which the work vehicle is caused to manually run; and p...