US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on Sept. 29 for "Automatic travel method, automatic travel system and automatic travel program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,441, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automatic travel method, automatic travel system and automatic travel program" was invented by Yasuto Nishii (Okayama, Japan) and Masaaki Murayama (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel process causes a work vehicle to travel along a plurality of work paths which are included in a target path and which cause the work vehicle to perform predetermined work, and a plurality of turning paths connecting between the work paths. In a case where the work vehicle travels in the turning path, when a correction process decides that at least one ...