US Patent Issued to FireFly Automatix on Jan. 27 for "Angle selection for mower path planning" (Utah, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,833, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FireFly Automatix Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Angle selection for mower path planning" was invented by Kyle R. Storey (Farmington, Utah), Adam Lawrence Aposhian (Fruit Heights, Utah), Vinayak Ruia (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Eric E. Aston (Farmington, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for selecting one or more angles for parallel lines of a path a mower will traverse while cutting an area. Each angle can be selected based on its alignment with the boundary of the area to thereby minimize the amount of grass that will remain uncut when the mower traverses a path that includes para...