US Patent Issued to Ariens on Nov. 18 for "Power source and control system for a lawn mower" (Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,839, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ariens Co. (Brillion, Wis.).

"Power source and control system for a lawn mower" was invented by Michael J. Holeton (Kaukauna, Wis.), Clayton J. Van Thiel (Little Chute, Wis.) and William Tenorio (Woodridge, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery-powered electric lawn mower includes battery packs mounted on a docking stations of a bus bar by way of a gravity-biased engagement. The lawn mower also includes a priority charging control logic for giving priority of charge to battery packs that have a state of charge over a threshold. The lawn mower also includes a live to drive system which a...