US Patent Issued to Graco Minnesota on Feb. 3 for "Automated mobile sprayer spraying and navigation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,522, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Graco Minnesota Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Automated mobile sprayer spraying and navigation" was invented by Charles W. Dawson (Otsego, Minn.), Barry W. Mattson (Otsego, Minn.), Nicholas H. Reath (Anoka, Minn.), Dale C. Pemberton (Big Lake, Minn.), John P. Saunders (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Andrew V. Lindenfelser (Elk River, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated mobile sprayer (AMS) (12) is configured to apply stripes of fluid to target surfaces to coat those target surfaces with the fluid. A control module (24) of the AMS (12) controls movement and spraying by the AMS. The control module ...