US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on April 8 for "Autonomous travel working machine and charging station" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,120, issued on April 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous travel working machine and charging station" was invented by Takuma Namiki (Wako, Japan), Kohei Matsuzawa (Wako, Japan), Kenta Kawanishi (Wako, Japan), Kotaro Nakamura (Wako, Japan) and Shuhei Maruyama (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a lawn mower, one power receiving terminal is provided on a surface of the lawn mower, and the other power receiving terminal is disposed in a position where it sandwiches at least a part, such as the upper front portion, of a vehicle body with the one power receiving terminal. This configuration serves to su...