US Patent Issued to MTD PRODUCTS on Oct. 14 for "Differential traction drive and steering axis coordination system and method" (Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,400, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MTD PRODUCTS INC (Valley City, Ohio).

"Differential traction drive and steering axis coordination system and method" was invented by Her-Jye Chang (Zionsville, Ind.), Aaron Smith (Zionsville, Ind.) and Jay E. Maggard (Polk, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for differential traction drive and steering axis coordination for an autonomous mower or other turf device includes initiating a steering motion based on determining a target forward speed and a steering rotational speed, calculating a left wheel speed and a right wheel speed, and applying the left and right wheel spee...