ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,749, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Autonomous traveling work apparatus" was invented by Sotaro Furuta (Wako, Japan), Fumio Minami (Wako, Japan), Kohei Matsuzawa (Wako, Japan) and Kei Watanabe (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous traveling work apparatus includes traveling wheels, a control unit, a first work unit, and a second work unit. The first work unit includes a first rotary blade assembly rotatably supported by a vehicle body, and the second work unit includes a second rotary blade assembly rotatably supported by the vehicle body. The rotation center of the first rotary ...