US Patent Issued to THE TORO on April 7 for "Autonomous machine having vision system for navigation and method of using same" (American, New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,748, issued on April 7, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Autonomous machine having vision system for navigation and method of using same" was invented by Alexander Steven Frick (Farmington, Minn.), Michael Jason Ramsay (Verona, Pa.), David Arthur LaRose (Pittsburgh), Stephen Paul Elizondo Landers (Pittsburgh), Zachary Irvin Parker (Pittsburgh), David Ian Robinson (Napier, New Zealand) and Christopher Charles Osterwood (Exeter, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vision systems for autonomous machines and methods of using same during machine localization are provided. Exemplary systems and methods may reduce com...