ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,088, issued on May 5, was assigned to Globe (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. (Changzhou, China).

"Navigating a robotic mower along a guide wire" was invented by Andre Lundkvist (Habo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method navigates a robotic mower (2) by means of a wire (8). The robotic mower (2) comprises at least two sensors (12; 14). The method comprises detecting (S101), by means of the at least two sensors (12, 14), at least one signal from the wire (4a; 8; 10), measuring (S102) a polarity of the at least one signal of the wire (4a; 8; 10) by means of each one of the at least two sensors (12, 14), determining (S103) a direction based o...