ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,086, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ECHO Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).
"Vegetation cutting apparatus" was invented by Fernando Iacona (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), Joseph John Zenkus (Lake in the Hills, Ill.) and Ryan Garrett (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The combination of: a cutting head configured to be coupled to a rotary drive to cause at least one cutting element on the cutting head to move in a cutting path; and a coupling system made up of a core and first and second adaptor assemblies. The first and second adaptor assemblies are interchangeably usable, one in place of the other, together with the first core...