US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 17 for "Autonomous lawn mowing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,488, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous lawn mowing system" was invented by Hiroto Takahashi (Saitama, Japan), Makoto Yamamura (Saitama, Japan), Toru Kawai (Saitama, Japan), Naoki Kameyama (Saitama, Japan) and Masaya Honji (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an autonomous lawn mowing system having improved safety. An autonomous lawn mowing system 1 is provided with: a position-information acquisition unit 14 that acquires position information concerning the position of an autonomous lawn mower 2 that is capable of travelling by itself; a moisture-information acquisiti...