US Patent Issued to Parker-Hannifin on Oct. 21 for "Sensor assembly for a steering control lever of a mower" (Michigan, Tennessee, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,249, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland).

"Sensor assembly for a steering control lever of a mower" was invented by Anthony Lapp (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Jason S. Richardson (Chuckey, Tenn.), Randall D. Thompson (Lancaster, S.C.), Kyle J. Merrill (Chuckey, Tenn.) and Todd A. Link (Gray, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example sensor assembly includes: a rotary displacement amplifier configured to be coupled to a lap bar of a mower and configured to amplify movement of the lap bar; and a rotary sensor comprising a sensor shaft coupled to, and rotatable by, the rotary displacement amplifier, wherei...