ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,386, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Scythe Robotics Inc. (Longmont, Colo.).
"Autonomous lawn mower" was invented by Robert Johnstone McCutcheon IV (Longmont, Colo.), John Gordon Morrison (Longmont, Colo.), Isaac Heath Roberts (Longmont, Colo.), Kevin Peter McGlade (Denver), Davis Thorp Foster (Boulder, Colo.), Matthew Alexander Kaplan (Fort Collins, Colo.), Zachary Austin Goins (Boulder, Colo.) and Matthew G. Quick (Erie, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous lawn mower is described. The autonomous lawn mower comprises a chassis supporting a podium that is raked forward with respect to a horizontal plane. In some exa...