US Patent Issued to THE TORO on July 15 for "Drive control system for utility vehicle" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,549, issued on July 15, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Drive control system for utility vehicle" was invented by Jerrod Neal Winter (Faribault, Minn.) and Alan Joseph Kummet (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive control system and a utility vehicle incorporating the drive control system. The drive control system may include first and second drive control levers each adapted to independently control an output of an associated drive member. A coupler is interposed between the drive control levers and is configured to provide a synchronizing force. The synchronizing force may cause movement of ...