ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,735, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nanjing Chervon Industry Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Robotic lawn mower" was invented by Qingxiao Mei (Nanjing, China) and Weipeng Chen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic lawn mower includes a mowing element, a body, a drive assembly, a first detection module, a second detection module, a failure determination module, an execution module, and a control module. The first detection module detects a first journey of the robotic lawn mower in a period. The second detection module detects a motion parameter of the drive assembly in the period and calculates a second journey of ...