US Patent Issued to HUSQVARNA on April 22 for "Robotic work tool and method for improved collision handling" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,549, issued on April 22, was assigned to HUSQVARNA AB (Huskvarna, Sweden).

"Robotic work tool and method for improved collision handling" was invented by Dan Liljedahl (Jonkoping, Sweden), Lars Ederfors (Bankeryd, Sweden), Magnus Bergenholm (Flisby, Sweden) and Daniel Wikestad (Hestra, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic work tool (100) comprising a chassis (110) and a body (120). The robotic work tool (100) further comprises at least one input unit (170, 180) for receiving input data relating to an operation of the robotic work tool (100), and at least one collision sensor arrangement (140) for detecting a direction of a ...