ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,042, issued on March 24, 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 a work unit including a passive rotary cutter that passively rotates, a driving rotary cutter that is driven to rotate, and a fixed cutter that does not rotate. The passive rotary cutter has a rotation axis passing through a rotation center thereof and oriented in a direction intersecting the front-rear direction of a...