ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,425, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Detection method, detection program, and work vehicle" was invented by Seungkyu Lee (Okayama, Japan) and Yasunori Omori (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combine harvester includes a detection unit capable of detecting a surrounding detection target, and automatically travels along a target route. A setting processing unit sets the detection function for the detection target to be enabled or disabled based on the target route. The detection processing unit causes the combine harvester to execute predetermined processing on the detection tar...