US Patent Issued to Greenworks (Jiangsu) on Jan. 27 for "Navigating a robotic mower with dead reckoning" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,820, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Greenworks (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. (Changzhou, China).

"Navigating a robotic mower with dead reckoning" was invented by Andre Lundkvist (Habo, Sweden), Daniel Truong (Torshalla, Sweden) and Jonas Ahnstroem (Joenkoeping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method navigates a robotic mower (2) comprising at least one sensor (12; 14). The method comprises detecting (S101), by means of the at least one sensor (12, 14), at least one signal from a wire (8) as a first signal source; controlling (S106) the robotic mower (2) to follow the wire (8) at a first distance (D1) to the wire (8); detecting (S108...