ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,965, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Work area determination device, lawn mowing system, and work area determination method" was invented by Andrii Pydin (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work area determination device includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a travel track of a lawn mower that has traveled while being operated by a person; a movement track calculation unit for calculating a movement track of the mowing blade of the lawn mower on the basis of the travel track; and a determination unit for determining a lawn mowing work area from which the obstacle presence area is excl...