US Patent Issued to THE TORO on March 4 for "Autonomous ground surface treatment systems, vehicles, and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,055, issued on March 4, was assigned to THE TORO COMPANY (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Autonomous ground surface treatment systems, vehicles, and methods" was invented by Joshua Craig Friell (Minneapolis), Jackie R. Gust (Northfield, Minn.) and Alexander Steven Frick (Farmington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground surface treatment vehicle and systems and methods using the same. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be adapted to autonomously or semi-autonomously identify and optionally treat target areas such as divots on turf surfaces. The vehicle may identify the target area via onboard or remote sensors and autonomously treat ...