ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,900, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to ECHO Inc. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).
"Apparatus for cutting vegetation" was invented by Joseph John Zenkus (Lake in the Hills, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary vegetation cutting unit having: a frame having a drive shaft; at least one cutting element that moves with the frame; and a debris blocking assembly on the frame with a unitary part that moves relative to the frame in opposite directions around an operating axis. The unitary part is configured to deflect away from the at least one cutting element objects approaching the at least one cutting element in a radial direction. The rotary...