US Patent Issued to THE TORO on April 7 for "Autonomous working machine with computer vision-based monitoring and security system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,747, issued on April 7, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Autonomous working machine with computer vision-based monitoring and security system" was invented by Alexander Steven Frick (Farmington, Minn.), Jason Thomas Kraft (Stillwater, Minn.), Peter M. Arendt (Richfield, Minn.) and Gregory S. Janey (Excelsior, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supplemental monitoring and security function and system for use with an autonomous working machine such as a robotic lawn mower. The system may use cameras associated with the machine to capture image data and transmit the data to a remote computer. The system may be...