US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for sprinkler head detection" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,813, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for sprinkler head detection" was invented by Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for detecting sprinkler heads. A lawn mower may utilize one or more processors to detect that an RFID tag signal associated with a sprinkler head. The one or more processors may determine a position of the lawn mower relative to the sprinkler head. The one or more processors may also control the lawn mower in response to the position of the lawn mo...