US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 8 for "Station and power supply device of autonomous travel work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,050, issued on July 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Station and power supply device of autonomous travel work machine" was invented by Shuhei Maruyama (Wako, Japan), Kenta Kawanishi (Wako, Japan), Fumio Minami (Wako, Japan), Kouki Tsuruda (Wako, Japan) and Masashi Takeichi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A station for a lawn mower for charging a storage battery included in the lawn mower that autonomously travels and perform specified work, the station including: a base that stores the lawn mower; and a power supply device that supplies electric power to the storage battery included in the lawn mower when...