ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,274, issued on March 24, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automatic traveling method, work vehicle, and automatic traveling system" was invented by Hidetaka Suzuki (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan), Yuji Yamaguchi (Okayama, Japan) and Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester includes a control device and a portable terminal. The control device functions as an automatic traveling control part for controlling the combine harvester to perform automatic traveling on the basis of an automatic traveling route comprising a plurality of set straight traveling...