US Patent Issued to TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP on Oct. 14 for "Robotic lawn mowers" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,180, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Robotic lawn mowers" was invented by Man Ho Choi (Kwai Chung, China), Hei Man Lee (Kwai Chung, China) and Shing Hin Li (Kwai Chung, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a mowing system, the method including mowing within a work area, wherein mowing is performed by a robotic lawn mower, and wherein the work area comprises a plurality of base stations each configured to charge the robotic lawn mower; determining when to charge the robotic lawn mower in view of a current charge level and a current location of the robotic lawn mower."...