ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,529, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

"Vehicle with deck alignment" was invented by Kenneth Joseph Dombrowski (Elgin, Ill.), Grant Kiel (South Elgin, Ill.) and Brian Todd Reese (St. Charles, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lawn mowing apparatus may include sensors that are fastened to both its mower deck and its chassis. The sensors may sense a position of the mower deck in relation to the chassis. The sensed position of the mower deck may be presented to the operator via a dashboard display of the lawn tractor or transmitted via a wireless signal to another device. Based on su...