ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,728, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Autonomous snow removing machine" was invented by Makoto Yamamura (Wako, Japan), Takamasa Udagawa (Wako, Japan), Yoshiaki Kotani (Wako, Japan) and Hiroya Takahashi (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous snow removing machine includes: traveling apparatuses; a snow removal work unit; a region setting unit that sets a snow removal work region in which snow removal is performed by the snow removal work unit; and a control unit that controls the traveling apparatuses such that the traveling apparatuses do not deviate from the snow removal work reg...