US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on June 23 for "Autonomous driving method, work vehicle, and autonomous driving system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,807, issued on June 23, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous driving method, work vehicle, and autonomous driving system" was invented by Yasunori Omori (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine is a work vehicle that autonomously travels on the basis of a preset travel route, and is provided with an autonomous travel allowance switch, which is an autonomous travel allowance operation member that allows autonomous travel, and a control device that functions as an autonomous travel control part that controls autonomous travel based on the travel route. The autonomous travel control part e...