US Patent Issued to YANMAR HOLDINGS on Feb. 24 for "Route change systems and methods for stopping autonomous travel at a modified stop position" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,928, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Route change systems and methods for stopping autonomous travel at a modified stop position" was invented by Junko Kudo (Osaka, Japan) and Takuya Iwase (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route setting device is provided with a status confirmation part and a change route setting part. The status confirmation part receives, with respect to a work vehicle that is moving along a preset work route in a field, an instruction by which the work vehicle moves to a stop position not included in the work route, and acquires the position of the work veh...