US Patent Issued to Techtronic Cordless GP on Dec. 30 for "Creation of a virtual boundary for a robotic garden tool" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,892, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Techtronic Cordless GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Creation of a virtual boundary for a robotic garden tool" was invented by Denis Gaston Fauteux (Hong Kong), Hei Man Lee (Hong Kong), Hok Sum Sam Lai (Hong Kong), Man Ho Choi (Hong Kong), Ho Lam Ng (Hong Kong) and Shing Hin Li (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system may include a robotic garden tool with an electronic processor that may be configured to determine (i) a plurality of relative distances between the robotic garden tool and an object as the object moves in the operating area, and (ii) one or more locations of the robo...