US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on Sept. 9 for "Zero turning radius mower park brake system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,821, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Zero turning radius mower park brake system" was invented by Maxwell G. Anderson (Hartford, Wis.), Sijith P M (Badakara, India), Sean V. Link (Madison, Wis.), Sam E. Kuehn (West Bend, Wis.), William J. Pickart (Juneau, Wis.) and Meghan M. Krause (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zero turning radius mower park brake system includes a pair of steering levers attached to steering arm brackets that are pivotable forward and reverse on a first axis for rotating a pair of traction drive wheels in forward or reverse, and pivotable outwardly on a ...