ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,514, issued on July 28, was assigned to FireFly Automatix Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Automatic feed system for a trimmer" was invented by William M. Decker (Salt Lake City), Eric E. Aston (Farmington, Utah), Mark C. LeBlanc (Salt Lake City), Daniel A. Aposhian (West Valley City, Utah) and Steven R. Aposhian (Farmington, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic feed system for a trimmer is provided. Such trimmers include a line that can be spun at high speeds to cut vegetation along roadsides or other areas. The automatic feed system is configured to dynamically detect the current length of the line and automatically feed the lin...