ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,304, issued on June 30, was assigned to MTD Products Inc (Valley City, Ohio).

"Correction of real time kinematics position location data for semi-automated steering of a power equipment device" was invented by Zachary A. Lyzen (Seattle) and Adam J. Woodrum (Wakeman, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated steering device is provided usable in conjunction with power equipment machines. By way of example, the automated steering device can provide user-assisted steering for a power equipment machine to maintain tight parallel paths. The user-assisted steering can be defined relative to an initial vector traversed through user d...