US Patent Issued to THE TORO on Aug. 25 for "Autonomous work vehicle using image-based localization" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,342, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Autonomous work vehicle using image-based localization" was invented by Alexander Steven Frick (Farmington, Minn.), David Arthur LaRose (Pittsburgh), Stephen Paul Elizondo Landers (Pittsburgh) and Eckhard Schwendemann (Buhl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous work vehicle generates a localization image of a part of a scene surrounding the autonomous work vehicle and generates a check image of a different part of the scene. A controller of the vehicle performs a localization process that involves generating the localization image and the ...