ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,938, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Route generation method, route generation system, and route generation program" was invented by Koji Miyake (Okayama, Japan) and Takashi Mochida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acquisition processing unit acquires position information of a predetermined position of a work vehicle in a field. A registration processing unit registers the predetermined position as a reference point when the work vehicle has traveled a predetermined distance from the predetermined position, or when a predetermined time has elapsed since the work vehicle starte...