ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,603, issued on May 26, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Lawn mower" was invented by Yoshimoto Matsuda (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lawn mower includes: a cutting blade motor that drives a cutting blade; a mode selector that selects one of modes including a normal lawn mowing mode and a grass removal mode in which grass accumulated at the cutting blade is brushed away; and processing circuitry configured to control the cutting blade motor in the mode selected by the mode selector. In the normal lawn mowing mode, the cutting blade motor is controlled so as to rotate in a normal rotation direction...