ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,136, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Mower, mowing system, and drive control method" was invented by Shinsuke Sato (Toyota, Japan) and Takehito Sakakibara (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mower includes: driving devices respectively provided on a right side and a left side of the mower and configured to be driven independently; and one or more processors configured to: estimate a gradient of a slope on a travel path; and drive the driving devices with different driving forces on the right side and the left side based on the estimated gradient such that the mower does not slip d...