ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,504, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Mower positioning configuration system" was invented by Chad A Ackerman (Urbana, Ill.), Nathan Ogden (Mahomet, Ill.), Mark D. Moran (Urbana, Ill.) and Scott A Stephens (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user defines a boundary of a mowed area on an image of the mowed area, on a mobile device. An optimization algorithm operates on the bounded mowing area to identify a beacon configuration that identifies a location for each of a plurality of different beacons to be placed about the mowing area. The user can then be guided to the different beacon locati...