US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 18 for "Control-by-wire system for a walk-behind self-propelled machine, lawnmower including same, and method" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,904, issued on March 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control-by-wire system for a walk-behind self-propelled machine, lawnmower including same, and method" was invented by Andrew Edwin Bejcek (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Steven J. Busjahn (Swansboro, N.C.), Aaron J. Parks-Ksor (Greensboro, N.C.) and Dean Edward Hartley (Burlington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system can be used for a walk-behind self-propelled machine that includes a handle, a power source, a drive assembly, and an implement selectively driven by the power source. The control system can include a touch sensor located on the handle config...