US Patent Issued to TEXTRON on July 14 for "Golf course autonomous mobile robot" (Georgia, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,481, issued on July 14, was assigned to TEXTRON INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Golf course autonomous mobile robot" was invented by Donny Lee Hammond (Augusta, Ga.), Ricky Veldee Kemp (Augusta, Ga.), Charles Daniel Dauchess (North Augusta, S.C.) and Samuel Smith (Martinez, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot includes a chassis, a tractive element coupled to the chassis, a driveline coupled to the chassis and configured to drive the tractive element to propel the mobile robot, a control system communicably coupled to the driveline, and a platform assembly removably coupled to the chassis. The platform assembly defines an occu...