US Patent Issued to The Toro on March 31 for "Turf maintenance system and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,858, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Toro Co. (Minneapolis).

"Turf maintenance system and methods" was invented by Brian E. Ries (Bloomington, Minn.), Jamie J. Feldman (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Tony L. Ferguson (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Richard D. Gerhardson (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turf maintenance system acquires data from one or more turf systems, generates a dashboard display screen to display the data acquired from the one or more turf systems, and schedules tasks for completing a turf maintenance job based on the acquired data."

The patent was filed on May 28, 2021, under Application No. 18/0...