ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,258, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).
"All-electric reel-type turf vehicle" was invented by Jamie M. Clements (Ipswich, Great Britain), Robert Johns (Ipswich, Great Britain) and Fahad Harith (Ipswich, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An all-electric turf vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises a chassis; a plurality of ground engaging wheels operatively connected to the chassis, wherein at least one of the ground engaging wheels is a steerable wheel; a plurality of electric wheel drive and tractions motors, wherein each electric wheel drive and tractions motor is operatively c...