ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,600, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous travel system, autonomous travel method, and autonomous travel program" was invented by Shiro Akamine (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position acquisition processing unit acquires positional information of a work vehicle. A halt acquisition processing unit acquires a halt instruction for a work of the work vehicle. A halt processing unit halts the work and travel of the work vehicle when the halt acquisition processing unit acquires the halt instruction. A calculation processing unit calculates a resumption position in which the ...