ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,578, issued on July 8, was assigned to MTD PRODUCTS INC (Valley City, Ohio).

"Autonomous mower navigation system and method" was invented by Her-Jye Chang (Zionsville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for autonomous mower navigation includes a robotic golf greens mower, an RTK-GPS base for providing RTK-GPS correction data, a cloud based data processing service for processing geolocation data, one or more computer servers, one or more mobile devices, a data communications network for providing communications access between any of the RTK-GPS base, the mobile device, the cloud service, and the robotic greens mower. The RTK-...