US Patent Issued to Yanmar Power Technology on June 16 for "Automated driving system for work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,777, issued on June 16, was assigned to Yanmar Power Technology Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automated driving system for work vehicle" was invented by Akihiro Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Akihiro Nakahata (Osaka, Japan), Yoshiharu Mizukura (Osaka, Japan) and Keita Kitano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This automated driving system for a work vehicle is provided with: an inertia measuring device that obtains tilt information of a work vehicle; and an automated driving control unit that causes the work vehicle to automatically travel along a target path. The work vehicle is provided with a work device that carries out a predeterm...