ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,724, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electric power equipment" was invented by Hiroya Takahashi (Saitama, Japan) and Toru Yuki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power equipment includes a drive source, a clutch provided in a power transmission path between the drive source and the travel unit and a controller for controlling an operation of the drive source. Wherein the controller is configured that in a process of increasing a speed in accordance with a rotational speed command value, when a rotational speed of the drive source reaches the clutch connection rotational spee...