US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 4 for "Storage lock assembly for lawn mower, zero-turn-radius lawn mower including same, and lawn mower" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,046, issued on March 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Storage lock assembly for lawn mower, zero-turn-radius lawn mower including same, and lawn mower" was invented by Lawrence J. Lardieri (Greensboro, N.C.) and Shota Tanabe (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage lock assembly for a lawn mower can include a primary pedal, a lock striker, a secondary pedal, and a deck lock that can be manipulated to selectively lock a mower deck into a stowed position and unlock the deck from the stowed position. The primary pedal can move the deck between a plurality of operating positions and the stowed position...