US Patent Issued to Yamabiko on April 14 for "Mower, ground maintenance system and ground maintenance method" (Japanese, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,817, issued on April 14, was assigned to Yamabiko Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mower, ground maintenance system and ground maintenance method" was invented by Hidenori Hiraki (Tokyo), Koichi Nakatsugi (Tokyo) and Yoshiharu Koshikawa (Wavre, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground maintenance system having a mower that can include a first traveling unit which can travel on a ground, a first operating unit which can be joined to the first traveling unit and include a blade which can mow grass on the ground, and a guide member provided in front of the first traveling unit. While the first traveling unit travels forward, objects on the groun...