ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,924, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HUSQVARNA AB (Huskvarna, Sweden).

"Robotic work tool system and method for defining a working area" was invented by Marcus Liljedahl (Huskvarna, Sweden), Jonas Rangsjo (Linkoping, Sweden), Beppe Hellsin (Jonkoping, Sweden), Fredrik Kallstrom (Huskvarna, Sweden) and Andreas Peterson (Jonkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic work tool system (200) for defining a working area (105) in which at least one robotic work tool (100) subsequently is intended to operate. The system (200) comprises at least one controller (210) being configured to receive sensor data for pose estimation...