US Patent Issued to YANMAR HOLDINGS on Sept. 1 for "Autonomous travel method, autonomous travel system, and autonomous travel program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,268, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Autonomous travel method, autonomous travel system, and autonomous travel program" was invented by Taishi Tanaka (Okayama, Japan), Yuji Yamaguchi (Okayama, Japan), Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan) and Masafumi Saito (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On a straight advancing route in which a straight advancing vehicle speed is preset following a turning route in which a turning vehicle speed is preset, a traveling processor causes a combine to travel at a straight advancing vehicle speed if the distance of the straight advancing route is not...