ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,005, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nanjing Chervon Industry Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Smart mower and smart mowing system" was invented by Weipeng Chen (Nanjing, China) and Dezhong Yang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart mower includes a camera for collecting image data of the environment around the smart mower; an inertial measurement unit (IMU) for detecting pose data of the smart mower; a memory at least used for storing an application program for controlling the smart mower to work or travel; and a processor for calling the application program, fusing the image data collected by the camera and the pos...