US Patent Issued to MTD Products on Aug. 25 for "Solid state LIDAR machine vision for power equipment device" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,043, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MTD Products Inc (Valley City, Ohio).

"Solid state LIDAR machine vision for power equipment device" was invented by Charles Hart (Valley City, Ohio) and Jeff Kucera (Medina, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine vision device is provided usable in conjunction with power equipment machines. By way of example, an array of sensors can be deployed to detect proximity of objects to the power equipment machine, and issue an alert in response to detecting an object within a threshold distance. The alert can be utilized by the power equipment machine to take corrective action to mitigate or avo...