ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,016, issued on April 29, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Electric utility vehicle power control" was invented by Timothy Patrick Sosnowski (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Erik Daniel Low (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system and method of controlling a utility vehicle. The system may include a controller, an energy mode input associated with a user input request to select one of at least two power modes, an implement control input associated with a user input request to select a movement of an implement, a drive control input associated with a user input request to select a movement of a drive ...