US Patent Issued to THE TORO on June 2 for "Barrier passage system for autonomous working machine" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,329, issued on June 2, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Barrier passage system for autonomous working machine" was invented by Alexander Steven Frick (Farmington, Minn.), Peter M. Arendt (Richfield, Minn.) and Aaron Y. Curtis (Eagan, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use with an autonomous working machine such as a robotic lawn mower. The system may allow communication (directly or indirectly) between the machine and a gate or other barrier opening to allow unattended or remotely-controlled passage of the machine through the gate. In some embodiments, the mower may include a vision system operabl...