ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,793, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hydro-Gear LP (Sullivan, Ill.).
"Operator feedback system for riding lawn mower" was invented by David J. Ashbrook (Zionsville, Ind.) and Damon J. Hoyda (McCordsville, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing feedback to a vehicle operator includes a lawn vehicle including a movement mechanism and at least one rotatable blade, a circuit capable of residing on the lawn vehicle, a sensor associated with the lawn vehicle and capable of sensing at least one characteristic of the lawn vehicle, a data packet representative of the at least one characteristic of the lawn vehicle, a tra...