US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on July 21 for "Orientation sensing for a lawnmower" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,252, issued on July 21, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Orientation sensing for a lawnmower" was invented by Daniel R. Ertl (Brookfield, Wis.) and Tyler L. Graham (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lawnmower may include an inertial measurement device configured to capture data indicative of an orientation of a housing of the lawnmower. The lawnmower may also include a controller coupled (i) to a motor configured to rotate one or more cutting blades and (ii) to the inertial measurement device. The controller may be configured to receive, from the inertial measurement device, the data indicat...