ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,011, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Globe (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. (Changzhou, China).

"Robotic mower, and control method thereof" was invented by Wei Xu (Changzhou, China), Yanliang Zhu (Changzhou, China) and Xian Zhuang (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a robotic mower to move according to a selected path map, the method includes: moving the robotic mower along a selected path; obtaining current position information of the robotic mower; determining a deviation between the current position and a predetermined position of the selected path; determining that a missing mowing area occurs when the d...